The usual bunch of second-guessing by "Monday morning quarterbacks" on this forum. Do you guys know what time of day it was? What the weather was like? What the weight of the aircraft was? What the checklist recommedations were?
The crew got the aircraft on the ground safely with no injuries. As for Reuters report abound "recent embarassing incidents" - any airline the size of QF will have mechanical problems merely as a result of the chance of an incident occurring and the scale of the operation. That is, a bigger operation will have more chances of experiencing routine mechanical malfunctions.
As for BKK - and I can here all the anti-QF critics gathering voice - the reports have been tabled. We (the pilots) have all discussed it. Procedures have been put in place, lessons have been learnt and hopefully the incident will not be repeated. But to read anything into this incident other than a mechanical malfunction occurring in a fairly inhospitable part of Australia is ridiculous.