Sierra, I was flying around that time with QF, and it was a fairly peaceful time, with just the normal problems, and the F/E's mainly had to pencil in hold items and a few trans quals on a flight. Of course the engineers were happy little campers at that time, and had the old girls humming rather nicely. We never did have to worry about our duty free too much, and while we had to pod a donk every so often, it was never much of a drama. Of course there was some problems, the worst being the SP after finishing a roll at SYD and had come to a halt to turn around, suffered a nose wheel collapse on the runway. Rust being the cause, which should have been picked up, and that caused the **** to hit the fan. EBB left her aileron on the landing lights at FCU, and the combi was not a good look after flying thru volcanic dust over Indonesia. (needed four new donks, leading edges stuffed, and no vision from flt deck windows) besides those little incidents, and the occasional overspeed, there were no major problems of epic proportions that I was aware of, QF historians can add to this, but basically the airline was travelling rather nicely. Until the shareholder arrived. And Dixon.
Cheers Teresa.