Qantas makes emergency landing ADL (Adelaide)

[staplefordheli]

AFP reporting loss of door on Qantas forcing emergency landing at ADL Adelaide. Also being reported on Sky. Incident reported Late monday night Aus time

[Goffee]

Coo, its all go here, isn't it!

Hoping that this was a false alarm, in heightened circumstances.

If not, hope all are safe and am sure that the crew did a fine job. One that will be misrepresented by the bumbling hacks rushing to generate some sales/page views/whatever.

Let the speculators commence

[wrenchbender]

Fresh scare over Qantas flight
BY CLAIRE LOW AND KATELYN JOHN
28/07/2008 11:24:00 PM
Qantas authorities were investigating last night another in-flight emergency which saw one of its aircraft forced out of the sky.
Passengers on board a Melbourne-bound Qantas flight from Adelaide told the ABC the aircraft had to return to Adelaide Airport because of a mechanical problem.

Passenger Rocco Russo said he heard a rattling noise about 10 minutes after take-off.

The pilot told passengers there was a problem with a door closing above the plane's wheel.

A Qantas spokeswoman said last night that flight number 692 from Adelaide to Melbourne performed a routine air turnback shortly after take-off because of an indication of one of the landing gear doors failing to retract.

The plane landed without incident and all passengers were accommodated on other flights.

"There was no risk to safety at any time," she said.

[Taildragger67]

QANTAS


Queensland
And
Northern
Territory
Aerial
Service

There is no 'U' in Qantas... :E

BBC saying it's Melbourne.

Oh well, it's all one place, really: 'South Eastern Australia' according to the wine bottles.

[pasoundman]

Who is they subcontracted their maintenance out to again ?

[scrunchthecat]

The US cable news network MSNBC is reporting this event. The anchors claim that passengers said there was "chaos" on board.

[11Fan]

I love how they were "forced out of the sky".

How does that work actually?

[Phil1980's]

Quit Anal Negligence To Air Safety

I can't think of anything else, I've searched every "Q" in the dictionary:p

[Rawrawhammer]

QF is loosing more doh then they're making these days..shame..shame..shame..well not really who cares they kind of earned it.They had a choice so can't be sympathetic.
Anyway..anyone noticed the CH9 morning news background picture is a constant QF logo even when they are talking about something totally irrelevant to QF or flying itself.It's been like that for the past few days or longer.Some ones gotta personal grudge I say...

Shady q4 08

[Finn47]

Apparently the nose gear door of the 767 did not close properly.

AdelaideNow... Qantas flight returns to Adelaide after undercarriage problem (http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24092268-5006301,00.html)

Passengers speak of "terrible vibrations" and "absolute chaos on board" (so what else is new?)

[Riccardo]

Sounds to me like a press sensationalised air turn back. Air turn backs are quite commonplace. I doubt it would have been of any interest whatsoever had the 747 thing not happened beforehand.

[PC767]

From parts of the hull parting company with the rest of the aircraft, to laughing gas in oxygen tanks, total electrical failures and now dodgy under-carrage doors. Is this just a case of increased reporting and awareness, are incidents such as these going on elsewhere with aviation or has something fundamentally gone wrong with Qantas.

[barit1]

PC767 indicates to me a total lack of awareness of the redundancy-upon-redundancy built into the commercial aviation system. Of the many many thousands of parts in an airliner, despite the best attention of the wrenchbenders, occasionally something doesn't work quite right and the journos shove a microphone & camera in an inconvenienced pax's face and ask "How does that make you feel?" (That's what they're trained to do!)

If journalism had 1% of the professional integrity of a good airline, you'd see a HUGE difference in its product. :ugh:

[PC767]

No, I understand all that barit, my point was has Qantas traded its reputation to save some cash or is the press hounding and picking on the company.

[lomapaseo]

From parts of the hull parting company with the rest of the aircraft, to laughing gas in oxygen tanks, total electrical failures and now dodgy under-carrage doors. Is this just a case of increased reporting and awareness, are incidents such as these going on elsewhere with aviation or has something fundamentally gone wrong with Qantas.

yes, I believe that you have hit the nail on the head

[MarkD]

does Proon still filter "bad" words, and if so can we make "Quantas" one of them?

[QF22]

Video footage shows VH-TJU but we all know how the media get it wrong !

If it was TJU it is just got back from C check at MAS in KL.

[carbonneutral]

QF692 OGK B767 ADL MEL 28/7. Left main gear failed to retract after takeoff, returned to adl for an ops normal landing. Some noise and vibrations associated with flying around with the gear down. Not sure where they got "chaos on board", pax and crew were calm and collected at all times...

[TWT]

Do any QF people know whether QF692 was a 738,a 734 (VH-TJU) or a 767 as has been alleged elsewhere ?

[lowerlobe]

I think it's a timely reminder that the media look at forums such as this and for all we know get most of their info from them...and possibly start these threads to get some more info for the morning editions (QUANTAS :ugh:)

On TV this morning while showing video footage of a 737 reported that it was a 767 that had problems.

It is this sort of journalistic inaccuracy that annoys most of us...and personally makes me wonder how many other stories are just as erroneous.

[llondel]

It is this sort of journalistic inaccuracy that annoys most of us...and personally makes me wonder how many other stories are just as erroneous.

Having been near the action on some news items (not aviation-related), I can assure you that the errors aren't confined to aviation. Indeed, a group of us were collecting press reports after one event and laughing at how many reporters had totally misunderstood things, focussed on irrelevant bits or had apparently just copied someone else's story and reworded it slightly. A friend who was at a ManU football game somewhere in Europe once had a totally different story on "crowd trouble" to what was reported in the press. Basically apply a pinch of salt to whatever you read and note that in some cases a much bigger pinch is required.

[HotDog]

From parts of the hull parting company with the rest of the aircraft, to laughing gas in oxygen tanks, total electrical failures and now dodgy under-carrage doors

Laughing gas in oxygen tanks.:confused: PC767, are you sure you're not a journo? I guess you meant to say Nitrogen?

[lowerlobe]

Laughing gas in oxygen tanks.
....Exactly my point HotDog....

You never know who is coming up with these posts.

[Flaps_Five]

The QF time-table indicates that 692 is a scheduled evening Adelaide to Melbourne flight as a 767-300......usual press confusion with photo of 767-300 but caption of 737-800.

[lowerlobe]

Nope...Video was of a 737 but journo was talking about it being a 767....but I guess a space shuttle is a Cessna is a 747 is a nuclear sub is a public bus....they're all the same....:oh:

I also forgot to mention people who have never posted before or suddenly turn up after a long absence when considering who might be behind posts and threads....

[mole1948]

Some years ago I remember a media report from, "our aviation correspondent" of an incident where the aircraft was having trouble with it's "tail flaps". What the bloody hell are tail flaps ? I think most media reports have to be treated with a pinch of salt.

[Desert Dingo]

I have a rule to read only as far as the first "plummet" or "I thought we were going to die". :yuk:

[Pera]

this is not news, let alone an emergency landing. :ugh::ugh:

[Little_Red_Hat]

Just wondering... we all know the press go crazy about things like this... but some of the early reports said things like "a door blew open mid-flight, causing chaos in the cabin", implying it was a cabin door/explosive decompression/yada yada yada...

Just wondering... if said paper didnt actually 'retract' that statement (i.e., saying 'it was a landing gear door, not a cabin door as previously stated') - could Qantas take legal action over it?? As in, its incorrect and damages reputation? (Not that it could really be damaged more this week it seems!)

[staplefordheli]

If you were refering to my typo on Quantas
I appologise but it was not posted for that reason, it was just for info as it came in live on Sky
I am not a journo perish the thought!
These things are often either under or over reported until the true facts get established, often on here
regards