QF144 Auckland to Sydney engine out
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The townsville refueller has it on good advice, that is was a catastrophic thronomeister failure, that caused the shutdown
Last edited by timbo1; 23rd Jan 2023 at 00:11. Reason: typo
Originally Posted by timbo1
The townsville refueller has it on good advice, that is was a catastrophic thronomeister failure, that caused the shutdown
Originally Posted by Chronic Snoozer
Perhaps it was a current generation engine which simply decided to “lie flat.”
Originally Posted by VHOED191006
We all have one common goal: to reassure the public that flying is safe. Unfortunately, those effects are being diminished by the constant circus show and tomfoolery that the media displays. Perhaps we should all start a movement, directed at the media, to do a similar act of what the French did to their royal family!
It went into quite a bit of depth, even criticizing the use of the term 'tarmac' for everything not grass at an airport. Of course, the majority of major airports have concrete runways, taxiways and aprons and tarmac is a road surface material.
Perhaps someone should set up a website, a la 'Media Watch' that highlights errors in the media v.v. aviation.
Lots of material. If anyone has time, look at the occasional article (space filler) in Traveler and other newspaper travel sections that occasionally rehash articles about various aspects of aviation. Not one of them seems to have even the benefit of looking at wikipedia, let alone even bothering to do a nanosecond of research, with very, very basic errors.
I have been told that the failure was the quill shaft which drives the accessory gear box which is one of those failures that you don’t hear discussed as a possibility. Fairly instant way of winding an engine down.
Originally Posted by Ollie Onion
The media kept saying they ‘lost and engine over the Tasman Sea’, I hope they can find it!
And while we’re at it….there’s often a difference between an engine failure and an engine shutdown. The “lost” engine may have failed or it may not but it doesn’t have to “fail” to be shutdown.
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Originally Posted by AerialPerspective
...it was a comment on how an MBA and having seen an aeroplane fly over once are about all the qualifications required to be an airport manager or a senior departmental manager in one of the most complex, specialist industries in the world.
Originally Posted by rb14
It's not rocket science.
Originally Posted by Cedrik
The main task of any manager senior middle or other is not to accept responsibility for anything, it's always somebody else's fault.
