Originally Posted by
43Inches
No doubt its a disturbing incident. However the link to the Mildura incident was not whether the crew were caught out by weather, but more so that like what is being insinuated about SQ, QF apoears to have not complied fully with the investigation. The crew busted a minima when the fuel state probably did not require them to, they did not declare a mayday when intending to perform an emergency landing below minima, therefore no services were in attendence. After the landing the crew refueled and departed, which conveniantly deleted the cvr data, after such an event the crew should have been stood down. QF appears to have provided no FDR information or even actual fuel data. The ATSB used calculated data and fuel uplifts from third parties to work out roughly how much fuel the QF aircraft had. The crew knew about the TEMPO, claimed they had holding fuel for it, then landed immediately claiming they had 'low fuel'. That whole event is just as disturbing, and leaves you wondering how many other times are minimas busted by this company and nobody finds out.
It was VA that landed below minima in YMIA, not QF.