Qantas flight makes emergency landing

[blueloo]

Qantas flight makes emergency landing
From Nine MSN Website:
Tuesday Jan 17 19:58 AEDT
A Qantas flight bound for Los Angeles was forced to turn around 10 minutes after take off from Sydney due to problems with one of the plane's engines.
The Boeing 747, carrying 316 passengers, left Sydney about 3.20pm (AEDT) on Tuesday, a Qantas spokesman said.
Ten minutes into the journey, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing due to a technical problem, the spokesman said.
"It (the engine) wasn't on fire, (but) there may have been a brief flame," he said.
"It was very undramatic.
"We're currently investigating the cause."
The 747 made a safe landing in Sydney, with the passengers being put on an alternative flight.
They are now on their way to Los Angeles.
©AAP 2005

[numbskull]

#3 engine had a large surge about 50 ft off the ground on take off. They were taking off from 16L.
Apparently rather large surge with flames out the front and back and large bang as is usual with these type events. The crew didn't shutdown the engine but dumped fuel and returned to Syd. I imagine it gave everyone a bit of a scare at a rather critical phase of flight.
There were nil obvious defects evident from a quick front and back inspection on its return but a borescope inspection was in progress and crews were gearing up for an engine change tonight if necessary.

[TIMMEEEE]

Runway 16L eh?

I'd like to see that!!!

[numbskull]

sorry, make that 34L.

[Capt Claret]

Well if it was on take-off and they then dumped fuel, the news bulletin (either Ch9 or ABC) that I saw got it really rong because they said it was 300+ km out when there was a loud bang and the aircraft returned and the runway (apt) was closed for an hour. :confused:

[Capn Bloggs]

crews were gearing up for an engine change tonight if necessary.
Great. Successfully bring a heavy beast back safely and then have to change the engine yourself. I demand a 29.47% payrise for that!

[numbskull]

Well I can assure you that H131 is not 300+ miles out because that is where I was when I saw and heard #3 eng surge on take off 200 metres in front of me.

[Redstone]

Great. Successfully bring a heavy beast back safely and then have to change the engine yourself. I demand a 29.47% payrise for that!

Make sure you do the bolts up nice and tight capn bloggs :}

[alangirvan]

Would this surge have been similar to the BA incident at LAX last year, where BA elected to continue to London?

[max1]

Aircraft never went outside Sy Terminal Area i.e. 45nm SY. I was there .

[Capt Basil Brush]

I was sitting in the crew room in SY when some FA's came in and said they just saw a QF jumbo have an engine fire after take-off. It was very obvious and noticeable apparantly.

[king oath]

Was this engine maintained in China?

[Bolty McBolt]

Great. Successfully bring a heavy beast back safely and then have to change the engine yourself. I demand a 29.47% payrise for that!
Yesterday 20:55


Hey Bloggsy
You are never going to get your 29.47% mate. I have seen a monkey trained ride a bike but if the chain falls of the monkey is screwed.
Stick to flying.....

Bolty

righty tighty lefty loosey

[sprucegoose]

Wouldn't it take more than ten minutes to dump enough fuel to reach max landing weight with a fuel load to go that distance? :confused:

[funbags]

50-55 minutes or so Spruce

[Feather #3]

alangirvan,

Yes, almost exactly the same problem.

G'day ;)

[Time Bomb Ted]

Was it you Feather???

TBT

[Feather #3]

TBT,

Nope, not this time. As Patrick O'Brian would have written, I was on "The Far Side of the World"!

G'day :)

[gaunty]

Feather #3

Patrick O'Brien eh :ok: I knew we had much in common.:)