QF Depressurization
 

Heard the crew declare a pan. Hope all ok. Landed Melbourne.

Errr,

How about when, what why????

(One short post deserves another)

Couple of hours ago. Should be on news by now. Saw the channel nine chopper overhead terminal.

On the news just now passengers interviewed as they leave.

They are saying loud explosion, masks down, then a steep dive.
Hope all ok.

Another blow to the old Qantas reputation.
This cant be doing consumer confidence any favours for the brand.

Oh dear, Yawn.

Non Normal situation, crew recovered and landed without incident.

So where's the problem??

I agree. Another mid-air drama. It's starting to become the norm. Who cares anymore???

Qantas passenger jet drops 26,000 feet

I don't think I would be categorising an explosive decompression as a 'another' mid air incident, these are quite nasty and can result in serious injury to pax and crew. Sounds like another good job done by the pilots.

Sounds like it happend on the start of descent. Was it a classic perhaps?
The old HP bleed valve blocked unnoticed and then the other HP bleed falling over. Thrust up a little, LP's pick up the slack, problem solved, descent normal-ish, passengers non the wiser, never trained but thats what experience does for you but who needs experience now days. Don't know if this problem persisted on the 800's.:rolleyes:

Guess we'll hear if it was something more serious.

All safe - all's well.:D

"Was it a classic perhaps?"

Radio reporting it as a 737-400. No guarantee that's correct though!

Move on
 

It was indeed a classic, one AC pack failed at cruise, and the other one the way down, hence the rubber jungle came down. Sitting on the pad at Tulla maint now.

All over on this one, move on.

It sounds like the crew did a fine job. If the pax were in such a panic, why did they still have time to video everything and take photos? I cant wait for the Facebook shots..

I love the blond journo : " Qantas call this a...,a.. Decomperawesurisation"!!

Too much..:yuk:

Media here (Oz) seem to be working the line that the crew didn't give the passengers much info. Like one of them complaining that it was well into the descent before the pilot came on the PA... Guess it didn't occur to them that he might have been busy.

Love the comment from another that when the masks came down, nobody told them what to do, they didn't know whether to put the mask on, or whether it was just a mistake....:ugh:

Too busy reading and talking while the safety brief is on.

Anthill I laughed at that too. The journo sounds almost as stupid as the passengers who didn't know whether to put the masks on or not.....

"um.... is this.... like..... real or not? I remember something about oxygen masks before we took off, but.... um....I might just....like....wait for someone to tell me what's going on"

Here is one of the links mentioned....

Qantas passenger jet drops 26,000 feet

To miss-quote someone famous.. "& they allow them to breed?!":ugh:

Neither would I, but this one wasn't.

Dont think anyone has suggested the crew has done anything wrong.

But it is amazing how many people here jump to the "Yawns" and "tis no big deal" thing. (again)
I can tell you for most people in the public it is a very big deal. And very scary for them if they experience it. They dont care if it is rapid slow or even managed well by the pilots. All they care about is it happened!

The VERY big deal here, is the continuing perception of another qantas plane in another incident. The qantas image of a safe airline is taking a serious beating.
(Justified or not)
At some stage the management will have to start looking at the hard reasons for this.
People have a choice of airlines and they wont spend their dollars on airlines that are even perceived as unsafe.

Maybe if pax watched the safety briefing they would know to put masks on and breath normally and that it would be normal for the a/c to descend to 10,000 feet. Scarey, maybe but not the world's biggest deal.

Now anybody know the reg? I am fearing its another case of 20+ year old a/c syndrome here if it was a 734

I would suggest a simple IQ test be conducted prior to being able to purchase a ticket might be in order but then some of our LLC might go broke :rolleyes:

Mid Air incident, nobody hurt, job well done. Let's now leave it to QF/ATSB to work out what happened and not become armchair experts as usual?:ok: