QF 29 Emergency Landing into LONDON
 

Reports just coming in of another QF incident described as some kind of hydraulic failure.

Happy 90th Birthday QANTAS.......

What's your source for this info?
The info I have is that QF29 dep HKG 22 min late (08:22) and arrived at LHR 29 min late (13:59)

I don't think that dropping 7 mins on a 13h30 sector is classed as an emergency:rolleyes:

QF 29 declared emergency landing into lhr in order to receive priority landing clearance due to hydraulic failure.
Allegedly.

bugger.
with 3 "incidents" we should be good to go for some time before another one.
can't wait to hear olivia comment on this!

Olivia will probably suggest:

" it's a new initiative to boost on time arrivals so that the a/c can be turned around more quickly enabling it get back to Avalon during day shift so that we do not have to pay those horrible Australian engineers any overtime"

or

" it's total speculation that it was a Qantas plane.....there are lots of planes landing at Heathrow with red tails.....

(no wonder Joe Hockey was glad to see her move on)

AT :E
disclaimer: no pilots were harmed in the making of this media release

Tell me your freckin joking.

Did they make a mayday call or a pan pan call ?

Ummmmm.
Sounds suspiciously like a recent sim exercise.

Maybe the media even report on them now!:rolleyes:

(Scene: The terminal coffee shop:
Pilot 1: Yeah did it yesterday. We had a HYD PRESS SYS 1 message going into LHR.
Pilot 2: Wadidja do?....
And you can read about the rest in this morning's paper....)

Courtesy of Ben Sandilands
Qantas keeps making headlines – Plane Talking

"a routine warning light indication of a hydraulic malfunction on QF29, another Boeing 744, as it approached London Heathrow, where it was met by emergency equipment in a standard response and which was not needed"

I suppose at QANTAS malfunctions are becoming routine.......

Also VH-OJU copped a bird strike out of JHB today. The leprechaun must feel like he killed a Chinaman. Even Dixon didn't have this much bad luck in so short a time. When it rains, it pours.

oh....let me guess...it was an albatross!!!!!!!

come on...bird strikes would happen every day of the week around the QF network...that is hardly a rare occurrence...there is a lot of crap flying around at this time from some people on this forum...