Qantas Air Turnback: QF5, SYD to Singapore
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Qantas Air Turnback: QF5, SYD to Singapore
AAP reporting QF5 turned back:
Qantas plane forced to turn around after technical issue
Qantas plane forced to turn around after technical issue
The Qantas website shows that it departed again at 2100 and will arrive in Singapore just under 4 hours late wrt scheduled arrival time.
It sounds like it's not a particularly newsworthy event but the way the media carries on these days, they'll print anything.
It sounds like it's not a particularly newsworthy event but the way the media carries on these days, they'll print anything.
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just out of curiosity, what exactly happens with a turnaround? I can see that QF5 is/was a B744 a/c and would have theoretically been at MTOW or near there. Now from my basic understanding (and I mean basic), isn't MLW usually much lower than MTOW such that they'd have to dump fuel or fly around for a few hours to burn it off? (this is just out of interest, is all). If not, what would they do?
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How embarassing that the media go into a frenzy over a nothing event - mind you, if it happened an hour later (or next week when it is dark at 6pm), there would be no cameras so there is no story.
I can't believe guys like Peter Overton let this sort of thing make the news - I think I saw him cringe when he was reading the autocue.
I can't believe guys like Peter Overton let this sort of thing make the news - I think I saw him cringe when he was reading the autocue.
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Originally Posted by The_Pharoah
isn't MLW usually much lower than MTOW such that they'd have to dump fuel or fly around for a few hours to burn it off?
The B744 has a fuel jettison system allowing a speedy reduction to MLW.
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2GB News quoted somebody on the ground at Cronulla seeing smoke and flames coming from one of the engines.
As a kid in the '50s it wasn't uncommon to see Connies, DC6s etc coming in with one prop feathered, but I never remember hearing anything about it on the news. I'd guess this is much less frequent with jets, and probably of less consequence, but there seems to be a constant demand for 'news' about anything out of the ordinary.
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2GB News quoted somebody on the ground at Cronulla seeing smoke and flames coming from one of the engines.
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Don't forget "Life with Dexter" John! 
Had a gut load of this topic sensationalised all over Shy News this evening.
It really is a non event. If someone will confirm the 744 has departed again, I'll close this thread.
Had a gut load of this topic sensationalised all over Shy News this evening.
It really is a non event. If someone will confirm the 744 has departed again, I'll close this thread.
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Channel 9 this morning was embarassing. Yes, they had the scared passenger (a young women with picture of course) telling how she feared for her life. And they actually had an interview with a kid (who would have been 15) who thought he saw the "big flames". 
So embarassing it isn't funny.
So embarassing it isn't funny.
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I could be wrong, but it looks to me that either number #2 or #3 engine was shut down for the landing. I noticed from the Channel 7 vision this morning that reverse was only used on #1 and #4, it was hard to see but definately #2 and possibly #3 were not in reverse.
