The_Cutest_of_Borg
8th Jan 2007, 20:09
Channel Seven are running a segment relating to this thread http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=216491&highlight=frankfurt
on Today Tonight...today....tonight...
Looks like there wasn't enough unprovoked street violence last night to fill a full half hour so we get non-news from ten months ago.
Anyone wanna take up a bet that Channel nine WON"T have their own version of the story?
Capt Claret
9th Jan 2007, 05:55
Borg,
The lead story on an ABC radio news bulletin last Friday arvo, was about a Qantas jet that was forced back into the air by bad Wx @ DRW. Some turkey from NIghtcliff, sitting on his balcony and watching the approach and subsequent missed approach regailed us with his eyewitness account of how it sped back into the sky with engines screaming!
Talk about a sad no news day! :ugh: :ugh:
airbusthreetwenty
9th Jan 2007, 11:16
Qantas boss denies cover-up over damaged jet
January 9, 2007 - 9:00PM
Qantas boss Geoff Dixon has denied a cover-up by the airline after a report that a packed passenger jet flew with a huge hole torn in its side.
Qantas has been accused in a Seven Network report of ignoring the incident, covering it up, and of misleading air-safety authorities.
QF5, with 408 people on board travelling from Singapore to Frankfurt, was damaged by a blown tyre shortly after take-off on March 8, 2006.
"Any suggestion that Qantas's handling of the incident ... was covered up in any way is completely wrong," Mr Dixon said tonight.
"There was no indication at the time of take-off that a tyre had shredded."
Mr Dixon said there was no damage to the aircraft that affected its air worthiness or safety.
"There was no risk to passengers or crew at any time," he said.
"The incident was reported to the ATSB (Australian Transport Safety Bureau) and CASA (Civil Aviation Safety Authority).
"Qantas also undertook its own investigation and provided its results to the Australian regulators, and to the air accident investigation bureau of Singapore.
"All decided that the incident did not warrant further investigation."
Seven reported that tyre debris tore a "huge hole", "three-metres long", in the jet's fuselage, and "no official investigation was launched".
"Qantas informed Australia's regulator (the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, CASA) that no investigation was launched," Seven reported.
Perth businessman Karl Dunbar said he could have crawled through the hole, which was the size of two refrigerators, that he saw in the jet at Frankfurt.
Seven quoted him as saying the incident was a cover-up.
Former CASA chairman Dick Smith said CASA investigators feel intimidated by Qantas.
"Employees have told me if we stood up to Qantas, we wouldn't have a career path," he told Seven.
CASA spokesman Peter Gibson told Seven: "It's certainly not a matter of a covering anything up.
"It's about making the right safety judgments, and we believe that was done."
CASA ruled there was no risk to passenger safety.
Mr Gibson said later that the damage to the aircraft had been exaggerated in the Seven report.
``Yes there was damage, no one can deny that, but it was not safety threatening,'' he told AAP.
``Qantas reported it to both Singapore authorities and Australian authorities, it was repaired in Singapore, it was repaired in Australia, we then got all those written reports, we checked all that and made sure it was okay.
``There was nothing at any point to say they didn't do anything properly and therefore there was no need to go and do anymore investigating.''
AAP
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/qantas-boss-denies-coverup-over-damaged-jet/2007/01/09/1168104982778.html