A Qantas Airways plane bound for Brisbane suffered an engine failure after takeoff on Friday and circled for a short period of time before returning safely to Sydney Airport, the Australian airline said.

A Qantas plane made an emergency landing after returning to Sydney Airport in Australia shortly after taking off after an engine failed, the airline said.

The Qantas plane is about 19 years old, meaning this incident was likely a maintenance issue and not Boeing's fault. A contained failure means the engine did what it was designed to do during a failure by maintaining its parts within the engine's protective casing.