Qantas A380 in Perth emergency landing
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Qantas A380 in Perth emergency landing
Qantas A380 in Perth emergency landing
Nothing to worry about folks, Joycie's "fix on fail" strategy working as designed.
the Airbus A380-800 was put into an emergency descent while travelling at some 12,000 metres, eventually levelling out at about 2700 metres, in order to maintain internal air pressure.
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Qantas A380 in Perth emergency landing
Landing wasn't an emergency landing. Emergency descent, granted, but nothing forcing them to land before hitting minimum fuel.
Standard tabloid journalism strikes headline writing again, bad thread title.
Standard tabloid journalism strikes headline writing again, bad thread title.
Ok fair enough but it's not just running low on fuel that cause an emergency is it.
In fact in a Fire too much fuel on landing could be a bad thing!! Anyway I digress...
In fact in a Fire too much fuel on landing could be a bad thing!! Anyway I digress...
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Where do they get this tosh from?
Originally Posted by ABC's Graeme Powell
Qantas spokesman Andrew McGinnes said air conditioning on a plane was not essential but the captain made the right decision.
"I think the other point is if you are flying at a lower altitude it can be bumpier," he said.
"I think the other point is if you are flying at a lower altitude it can be bumpier," he said.
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air conditioning on a plane was not essential
Air conditioning is optional, after all, it's minus 60 degrees outside, how cold do you want to be?
It's just those bloody selfish pax who want to be able to breathe air containing just a little oxygen and can't go without for even fifteen minutes that create all this bad press.
Never mind - we'll cancel the papers so nobody knows!
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Qantas spokesman Andrew McGinnes said air conditioning on a plane was not essential but the captain made the right decision.
That Andrew McGinnes guy is right on the ball eh? I suspect he was talking to a beancounter before he gave the interview, not an engineer.
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The pax O2 system didn't do its endearing jack-in-the-box thing for passenger amusement, suggesting either a very air tight fuselage or, more likely, a descent performed while the crew was trying to regain control of the cabin pressure systems after a failure.
Clearly the cabin equivalent altitude never exceeded 14,000', or whatever the 380's pax O2 auto deploy trigger value is.
Clearly the cabin equivalent altitude never exceeded 14,000', or whatever the 380's pax O2 auto deploy trigger value is.
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The ONLY time you can have too much fuel is when you're on fire!
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You must have a crystal ball that tells you you're not going to catch fire - when you load all that extra fuel.
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So would it be normal practice to wait til you have reached your emergency landing airport before you start circling and dumping fuel, or should they have started dumping it 700 klms out so they could have landed immediately they got to Perth?
VH-CHEER UP--- not necessary so, it may have still been above MLW but I would suggest not by much?
On the 77W there is a 100 tonne split between MTOW and MLW and takes about 12 hours to get down to MLW......not sure about the Dugong.
On the 77W there is a 100 tonne split between MTOW and MLW and takes about 12 hours to get down to MLW......not sure about the Dugong.
Our ABC excels again .... 
From their 'news' web site today:
Qantas plane plunges 30,000ft after air conditioning fails
They really are a bloody lost cause ....!
From their 'news' web site today:
Qantas plane plunges 30,000ft after air conditioning fails
They really are a bloody lost cause ....!
Pretty sure an A380 scheduled DXB-SYD with planned fuel for the trip but then making an unscheduled tech stop in PER isn't going to need to dump a drop of fuel.
The average Landing weight on a DXB-SYD is about 365-365T and with a fairly ordinary forecast for Sydney this morning the additional fuel would have taken that comfortably 370+. MLW is 391T, so with 3 or 4 hours to run it would have been about 400T at least....However Airbus allow landings above MLW in certain circumstances provided there's enough runway. This would qualify.
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The average Landing weight on a DXB-SYD is about 365-365T and with a fairly ordinary forecast for Sydney this morning the additional fuel would have taken that comfortably 370+. MLW is 391T, so with 3 or 4 hours to run it would have been about 400T at least....However Airbus allow landings above MLW in certain circumstances provided there's enough runway. This would qualify.