heard the same thing webber,apprentley #14,#15 and #16 kruegers where disconnected by avionics with no paper work raised and then the aircraft left without anyone being the wiser that the flight controls were ever touched,i think there was an incident a few yrs again where a similar thing happened, were the L/E flaps didn't deploy on take off on a 747,and all souls aboard lost their lives,sounds like Qantas are very lucky this time round,maybe the 1 st 747-400 D check that is to be done there they will not be so lucky