Qantas bomb scare
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Qantas bomb scare
Channel 7 saying that there was a bomb scare on a Qantas flight out of Auckland this morning, suspect item found on board enroute and the aircraft returned to Auckland.
Yep, turns out it was actually a part of the aircraft just normally not seen! I'd love to have seen the look on the face of the guy who went in to identify it 
Qantas 'bomb' part of aircraft | News.com.au
Qantas 'bomb' part of aircraft | News.com.au
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Shear wild guess here that it may have been an emergency battery pack that had become visible behind some lining.
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I know If I had a potential device in m plane I wouldn't be going back to check it and thats in line with the company's Procedures... So I would assume that they would be similar, so how could they possibly identify it.
Sensible procedure. The fact that something looked like "part of the aircraft" is irrelevent otherwise something could be sneaked on board by camouflaging it with a Boeing part number and identification plate.
I guess none of the Tech Crew were able to identify the offending item?
Obviously it did not have a flight deck light attached so no procedure would appear in the QRH..
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It all goes back to dumbing down the knowledge of our airframe, pilot requirements. If the ground school was anything like the "old days", this would have been quickly trouble shot and ended in a minor sector comment...peanuts and....etc?.
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You are correct.
It IS a QANTAS group aircraft. Sporting a New Zealand Flag and New Zealand registration.
Operated by JETCONNECT Crew.
So it is a QANTAS group aircraft, but it is not QANTAS.
But you already knew that.
Didn't you.
It was Jetconnect a ZK registered aircraft
So it was a Qantas aircraft then. No difference from what I can tell.
So it was a Qantas aircraft then. No difference from what I can tell.
It IS a QANTAS group aircraft. Sporting a New Zealand Flag and New Zealand registration.
Operated by JETCONNECT Crew.
So it is a QANTAS group aircraft, but it is not QANTAS.
But you already knew that.
Didn't you.
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It all goes back to dumbing down the knowledge of our airframe, pilot requirements. If the ground school was anything like the "old days", this would have been quickly trouble shot and ended in a minor sector comment...peanuts and....etc?.
