MERGED: Qantas Decompression ?
Channel 10 report:
"Video from a passenger just in, showing the panic on board......."
Everyone seated calmly in the rubber jungle, one chick even still had her lunch tray in tact.
What some pilots will do to avoid flying through Australian TIBA...
"Video from a passenger just in, showing the panic on board......."
Everyone seated calmly in the rubber jungle, one chick even still had her lunch tray in tact.
What some pilots will do to avoid flying through Australian TIBA...
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You just have to knock the top off an O2 cylinder and it will punch its way through concrete walls (that's without ignition). I really think you'd see far more damage if one let go.
Corrosion seems far more likely. How many skilled Sheeties and NDT experts left the company when Qantas shifted its 744 major maintenance from Sydney to Avalon?
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Corrosion seems far more likely. How many skilled Sheeties and NDT experts left the company when Qantas shifted its 744 major maintenance from Sydney to Avalon?
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You just have to knock the top off an O2 cylinder and it will punch its way through concrete walls (that's without ignition). I really think you'd see far more damage if one let go.
Corrosion seems far more likely. How many skilled Sheeties and NDT experts left the company when Qantas shifted its 744 major maintenance from Sydney to Avalon?
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You are right the monkey did it... and he knocked the top off the oxy bottle.
Just when they got rid of the banana dispenser in the flt deck..
Corrosion seems far more likely. How many skilled Sheeties and NDT experts left the company when Qantas shifted its 744 major maintenance from Sydney to Avalon?
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You are right the monkey did it... and he knocked the top off the oxy bottle.
Just when they got rid of the banana dispenser in the flt deck..
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Mr Spruce Goose, this is far from a joke. This is serious stuff! GD is to blame for putting foolish lower management into positions they have no idea about, and all they are taught is to cut costs. The ALAEA had direct communication with GD and when asked some questions he clearly had no idea! Lies by his minions. Do not ever take this current event as a joke it could have been horribly worse, i repeat horribly worse.
Nunc est bibendum
Hey cougar, upperlobe and anyone else that keeps dragging this thread to the issue of QF management. If you really want to keep flogging this horse then there is a thread running on D&G Reporting Points where you can sound off to your hearts content and I and many others may even support you. 
However this thread was created for an entirely different reason. If you'd read the start of this thread instead of seeing it as yet another opportunity to get stuck into Geoff et al then perhaps you may have noticed this:
So how about you blokes take your gripes to a thread where they're probably much more appropriate and leave this one for those of us who would also like to see the funny side of the piccie and poke crap at JB (the captain) along the way. What you guys have done isn't thread 'drift' but thread 'hijacking' and it's incredibly poor form. 
However this thread was created for an entirely different reason. If you'd read the start of this thread instead of seeing it as yet another opportunity to get stuck into Geoff et al then perhaps you may have noticed this:
The big question is... what is the pilot thinking to himself, pictured here?
Who can think of the best caption?
Who can think of the best caption?
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The obvious part of this matter(other than the hole) is the incredible inability of the CEO to praise the actions of both the technical aircrew and the cabin crew. His acidity is sad to see.
It is one thing drilled into our pilots know your emergency descents, despite the continued encroachment of non operational cost cutters. Whoever was in the seat (both of them) did a great job...
It is for this sort of day that JB and indeed PW get paid theso called ridiculous amounts of money "management" claim..
1000km an hour and 30,000 feet is not supportive of human presence. Managing the risk is something not lost on aircrew, me included, everytime I see the faces file on and off aircraft.
The sooner we have managers with an operational background, the sooner we recognise the value of experience and close the chapter on this sad experiment Dixon has embarked upon, the safer we collectively will again become.
It is one thing drilled into our pilots know your emergency descents, despite the continued encroachment of non operational cost cutters. Whoever was in the seat (both of them) did a great job...
It is for this sort of day that JB and indeed PW get paid theso called ridiculous amounts of money "management" claim..
1000km an hour and 30,000 feet is not supportive of human presence. Managing the risk is something not lost on aircrew, me included, everytime I see the faces file on and off aircraft.
The sooner we have managers with an operational background, the sooner we recognise the value of experience and close the chapter on this sad experiment Dixon has embarked upon, the safer we collectively will again become.
short flights long nights
There is a video on BBC NEWS | News Front Page
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"You just have to knock the top off an O2 cylinder and it will punch its way through concrete walls (that's without ignition). I really think you'd see far more damage if one let go."
Well, not quite concrete but maybe a few sheets of aluminium.
YouTube - Scuba Tank - Valve Cut
Since when did the CASA media contact become the PR spokesman for Qantas?
News Video - 25-Jul-2008
Gibson, I expect next you'll be next making appearances to assure the public that the ATC staffing crisis is nothing to be concerned about.
CASA, why don't you concentrate on you own business, Christ knows you have a hard enough time getting that right!
Oh...wait a minute...that's right...Qantas runs CASA.
Well, not quite concrete but maybe a few sheets of aluminium.
YouTube - Scuba Tank - Valve Cut
Since when did the CASA media contact become the PR spokesman for Qantas?
News Video - 25-Jul-2008
Gibson, I expect next you'll be next making appearances to assure the public that the ATC staffing crisis is nothing to be concerned about.
CASA, why don't you concentrate on you own business, Christ knows you have a hard enough time getting that right!
Oh...wait a minute...that's right...Qantas runs CASA.
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After watching some of the onboard passenger videos, may I also say WELL DONE to the cabin crew for keeping the brave face and keeping both calm and confidence in the passengers.
All too often their role seems to be viewed as trolley dollies.
Regards,
An Engineer.
All too often their role seems to be viewed as trolley dollies.
Regards,
An Engineer.