Qantas Plane Only Seconds From Disaster.

[planemad2]

Just logged in here, surprised there is no thread here yet about the Qantas aircraft in Sydney that had to go round. ;)

It is on all the TV News.

Where are the posts about "seconds from disaster", and comments from terrified pax being "close to death". :rolleyes:

[Cockpit Door-Closed]

Another day at the office!

So what is new?

Perhaps "Manly ferry has two attempts at docking at Circular Quay" may one day usurp the go around theme.

[Milt]

Cure

How about everone do a short final go round for a week.

Or maybe a few of us should have an experience or two with air pockets.

[maxgrad]

2nd attempt at docking?
I thought they always let the ferry come in under autopilot at full speed?

Seriously though I concur with you. Heard on radio that terrified pax didn't know if they would live when a Q jet applied full power and banked steeply up.(their words, not mine).

Gets up my nose how much sway and power the media hold over the country.

cure 2

camera in nose of aircraft to show pax that conducting a goround is a really good idea

[planemad2]

That's better, I thought all the journos must have been on strike. ;)

[NAMPS]

http://bristol.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/1/10068.gif


:zzz:

[bb744]

Qantas aircraft lands safely, seconds away from mid-air crash with earth.

Ho hum!

[Capt Claret]

Another "Oh my god, we climbed vertically and we thort we were gunna die" manoeuvre.


ps NAMPS, bluddy great gif. Mind if I use it?

[NAMPS]

No problems at all Capt.

:ok:

[Atlas Shrugged]

...and in other News, there was a car in my street with a flat tyre.

Passengers had a lucky escape from the midday sun, retreating to the safety of a shady tree. ;)

[VH-Cheer Up]

Aren't we frail human beings always only seconds from disaster?

Press the button to cross the road. Wait for the green man or... "Blimey, I thought we were all gonna die, there was cars and trucks bearing down on us"...

Carve the Sunday roast... "You should have seen the size of that knife, if I had just turned the blade around and plunged it deep into my chest, blimey, I thought I was gonna die"...

Taking a shower "Blimey, I thought I was gonna die... Water was pouring in all around me and I was stuck in there with the door closed. If it hadn't been for the good fortune that there was a little hole arrangement in the floor, I would have drowned"...

And now in Today's Goat News: No Goats were injured in a car crash in the centre of Valetta today.

I like the camera in the nose idea... Garuda used to have those, so did ANA in their winglet-free internal 747-400's. Wonder if they were soothing or... "Blimey, I could see we were heading straight for a cloud, I thought we were all gonna die"...

Next step: IQ and Cognitive Processing tests for SLF. Fail, and boarding denied.

Sounds fair to me.

[gaunty]

NAMPS

Onya and thanks for the *.gif the most productive part of thread:ok:

[Three Bars]

An interesting corollary here.

Many of the SLF who write in about the potential flight attendants strike over Christmas say that they couldn't care less about safety training for the F/As - all they want to do is fly from A to B.

And yet when an aircraft does a goround, THEY JUST ABOUT SH*T THEMSELVES!!!

Just imagine if there was an evacuation with the strikebreakers on board and it went to worms - imagine the demands for Dixon's head then!!!!!

[MeatHunter]

What about the poor bloody roo that got flattened at Bathurst.

[OzExpat]

Thanks MeatHunter! Jet* catering duly notified.

[Capn Bloggs]

Namps,

That'll be the most-used gif in history!