Qantas A380 in Perth emergency landing
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They really are a bloody lost cause ....!
If so I would put it more like typical journos. They are unfortunately just going on what they are being told and probably don't know enough to have much of an idea as to the veracity of it. And of course, the editor in chief will be telling them to "sex it up".
I guess the headline "Sydney-bound Qantas plane makes 30,000ft emergency descent after air conditioning fails" doesn't quite have the same grab as saying it "plunged".
I heard another reporter from one of the commercials say last week that a flight which turned back en route to Port Hedland due to weather was a 747 rather than the correct 737. Just a bit of difference but they don't know enough to query it.
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It was a slow leak with the crew making a slow decent to maintain cabin press'. Cause unknown at this stage. The cabin started climbing faster, thus emerg descent. Last hr and a bit at 10000, overweight landing PH but only a few tonne.
Sounds like a weird failure.
Sounds like a weird failure.
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Qantas A380 in Perth emergency landing
A SECOND Qantas plane has had to make an emergency landing after smoke and fumes filled the cabin of the 737 en route from Perth to Karratha.
The 737 had just taken off from Perth for Karratha about 4pm AEDT when smoke and fumes in the cabin forced the captain to perform a turnaround and return to the airport.
The 737 had just taken off from Perth for Karratha about 4pm AEDT when smoke and fumes in the cabin forced the captain to perform a turnaround and return to the airport.
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All this high drama happening right in GT's backyard.... did I miss his incisive expert commentary?
Reporter: 'What happens when an aircraft's Air-conditioning system fails?'
GT: 'When an aircraft's Air-conditioning system fails the cabin gets very hot.'
Genius
Reporter: 'What happens when an aircraft's Air-conditioning system fails?'
GT: 'When an aircraft's Air-conditioning system fails the cabin gets very hot.'
GT: 'When an aircraft's Air-conditioning system fails the cabin gets very hot.'
Capt Quentin McHale All this high drama happening right in GT's backyard.... did I miss his incisive expert commentary?
McHale.
McHale.
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I heard another reporter from one of the commercials say last week that a flight which turned back en route to Port Hedland due to weather was a 747 rather than the correct 737. Just a bit of difference but they don't know enough to query it.
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I heard another reporter from one of the commercials say last week that a flight which turned back en route to Port Hedland due to weather was a 747 rather than the correct 737. Just a bit of difference but they don't know enough to query it.
VARA had a cabin depressurisation event, enough to drop the oxygen masks, on a F100 charter last Wednesday after an inflight lightning strike, which eventually resulted in a diversion to Hedland after a go-around at "XXX" in the East Pilbara.. I didn't see a single mention of it on the news anywhere, or was I not paying attention? Plenty of pictures on FB, apparently, and they should know better. There was external damage visible on the aircraft after landing, nosecone looked a bit sad. You would think it would have headlined as "Virgin FIFO jet plunges after mid-air lightning strike" or similar.