Jetstar 330 diversion
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Jetstar 330 diversion
It seems if a Qantas passenger farts it's news worthy but I didn't read a whisper of this in the press.
Anyone able to give anymore details?
BTW; Does anyone know how they are making such fantastic profits with 161 passengers?
Incident: Jetstar A332 over Pacific on Oct 24th 2011, engine shut down in flight
By Simon Hradecky, created Monday, Oct 24th 2011 16:22Z, last updated Monday, Oct 24th 2011 16:22Z
A Jetstar Airways Airbus A330-200, registration VH-EBJ performing flight JQ-26 from Tokyo Narita (Japan) to Cairns,QL (Australia) with 161 passengers, was enroute over the Pacific Ocean about one hour into the crossing towards Australia when the crew needed to shut the right hand engine down due to low pressure in the fuel pumps. The aircraft turned around and diverted to Osaka's Kansai Airport (Japan) for a safe landing about 2.5 hours after departure.
The flight was subsequently cancelled.
By Simon Hradecky, created Monday, Oct 24th 2011 16:22Z, last updated Monday, Oct 24th 2011 16:22Z
A Jetstar Airways Airbus A330-200, registration VH-EBJ performing flight JQ-26 from Tokyo Narita (Japan) to Cairns,QL (Australia) with 161 passengers, was enroute over the Pacific Ocean about one hour into the crossing towards Australia when the crew needed to shut the right hand engine down due to low pressure in the fuel pumps. The aircraft turned around and diverted to Osaka's Kansai Airport (Japan) for a safe landing about 2.5 hours after departure.
The flight was subsequently cancelled.
BTW; Does anyone know how they are making such fantastic profits with 161 passengers?
So they shut down an engine and went back to Osaka, seems a pretty normal response, what would a QF SkyGod have done in the same circumstances?
161 pax on an A330 is better than some QF flights I have been on, LHR-BKK on a QF 744 with 68 pax (during the Iceland volcano saga)
161 pax on an A330 is better than some QF flights I have been on, LHR-BKK on a QF 744 with 68 pax (during the Iceland volcano saga)
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So they shut down an engine and went back to Osaka, seems a pretty normal response, what would a QF SkyGod have done in the same circumstances?
Not sure anyone is questioning the actions taken by the tech crew in this instance. Far from it. Rather the fact if it were a QF A330 that suffered similar problems it would've been front page news is all...........
Wow some big chips on peoples shoulders here. I think the point is if it was Qantas it would have been front page news. Qantas is under a lot more scrutiny by ther general public here because of the belief (true or not) that its our national airline. Well done to the crew for doing their job.
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..what would a QF SkyGod have done in the same circumstances?
I think you are being overly kind and understating their self opinions (QF Pilots) by using the term 'Skygod'.
(Apologies to the rest of the PPRUNE world who are familiar with the QF drivers on the forum. Too many early starts in a row mean that rants like this become more common!
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what would a QF SkyGod have done in the same circumstances
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Engine was NOT shutdown in flight. No1 engine power was reduced to idle due to a FADEC fault. The aircraft diverted to KIX without any further issues. The aircraft is still in KIX and rectification is in progress.
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DJ737 and idiot co,
Why can't a simple question get an real answer, I was asking for more details before jumping to conclusions, you know - GRADE.
, well I take it you have never flown the 330 if you think that's a normal response.
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Low fuel pressure - GRVTY FUEL FEEDING - 1 hour into the flight should not in itself need an engine to be shut down using a gravity ceiling of 20,000'.
Therefore what else was going on - Fair question I would have thought.
Why can't a simple question get an real answer, I was asking for more details before jumping to conclusions, you know - GRADE.
seems a pretty normal response
shut the right hand engine down due to low pressure in the fuel pumps
Low fuel pressure - GRVTY FUEL FEEDING - 1 hour into the flight should not in itself need an engine to be shut down using a gravity ceiling of 20,000'.
Therefore what else was going on - Fair question I would have thought.
Yeah, I too find it odd that this incident didn't register on any Oz media radar.
Could I be forgiven for thinking that maybe QF mgmnt (larf) might just be surreptitiously alerting certain media outlets when an incident happens on a red-tailed aircraft ???
This would, of course, be deliberate "damaging the brand" (how dare I say such a thing) but would be consistent with previous garbage emanating from AJ etc., such as calling QF pilots "kamikazes"...and making extreme efforts to alienate QF workforce.
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would strongly suspect that QF mgmnt & board are actively working to further the degradation of QF with the end-game being to finally get their hands on the entity at a bargain-basement price. If you want to buy a listed company, you want the share price to be low don't you ???
Should I believe in conspiracies ???
Could I be forgiven for thinking that maybe QF mgmnt (larf) might just be surreptitiously alerting certain media outlets when an incident happens on a red-tailed aircraft ???
This would, of course, be deliberate "damaging the brand" (how dare I say such a thing) but would be consistent with previous garbage emanating from AJ etc., such as calling QF pilots "kamikazes"...and making extreme efforts to alienate QF workforce.
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would strongly suspect that QF mgmnt & board are actively working to further the degradation of QF with the end-game being to finally get their hands on the entity at a bargain-basement price. If you want to buy a listed company, you want the share price to be low don't you ???
Should I believe in conspiracies ???
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Is it possible that the low fuel pressure could be caused by the fuel in te lines beginning to freeze? Had heard something similar around the traps of a PC12 that had a problem as described
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There was no low fuel pressure. The fuel did not freeze. There was not too much oil. These suggestions are uninformed and amaturish. The fact is that there was a FADEC fault on the #1 engine which caused the aircraft to divert to KIX. The problem has now been fixed with a few component changes, and the aircraft is again serviceable. No news here. Move on.
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Even if it had made the news, I'm sure much would have been made of the fact that the aircraft is maintained by Qantas engineers. It was probably dispatched from NRT by Qantas engineers too.
uick, where's Joe Hildebrand when you want a sensationalist headline about nothing?
:roll eyes: 
uick, where's Joe Hildebrand when you want a sensationalist headline about nothing?
:roll eyes: