MERGED: Aircraft on fire - Perth - photo of it in the air
 

Reports of an aircraft on fire after take off from Perth

- photo of it in the air with a glow or flames from one of the engines,
I'll leave it for others to decide how to describe it.

Said to now be safely on the ground again and it was "well under control"

http://i59.tinypic.com/w6yzwp.jpg

A cargo plane, 500N - and those blokes are going to get a right bollocking for using full thrust with afterburners. All's well that ends well.

Not sure where you're getting cargo plane from, it was a Cobham RJ100 full of passengers.

Surprised the hair dryer burnt so well.....

A 146QT or an RJ-100? The media says the former.

Plane makes emergency landing in Perth

VH-NJI operating NC1994 to Barrow Island. It was a passenger flight. Cobham doesn't operate freighters out of Perth.

Good job to the crew.

Self loading cargo :ok:

Seen a few ALFs go bang over the years but that's a speccy one.

Stand by for the usual hysterical reaction from the media, especially with quotes from some of the pax.:rolleyes:

And what Blueskymine said!:ok:

Sir Edmond Halley is rather miffed.

It looks like Hayley's Comet

29/4/14 Cobham BAe-146 Engine fire Perth to Barrow Is
 

VH-NJI dep Perth, check out the Webtrak. Eng #2 on fire.

Nicely handled


Plane catches fire at Perth Airport

W.A?? Oh no, where is Geoffrey 'John' Thomas take on this? Maybe he will reenact this in the SIM?

Looks a lot like the left engine to me.

And the BAe 146 ain't one of them.


Top notch reporting! :yuk:

Dancing Dog - Are you sure about that BAE146 fact? :)

Cobham - Freight Services

At least the ABC got it right.

Plane engine catches fire after take-off from Perth Airport - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I'm looking forward to the experts detailed analysis on this one.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but freight services don't fall under the QantasLink brand.

The media really do take the cake.

Video of interview with a passenger out the front of the airport,
asking all the hyped up questions trying to get a good quote etc.

The guy was quite cool even though he said he was a bit scared
but I thought didn't get caught up in the hoopla that the media
was trying to generate.


The heading on the video says it all
"cobham passenger terrified to see flames"

Fancy that. According to one media report "the aircraft managed to turn back". Terribly tricky manoeuvre an asymmetric three engined turn!:ugh:

Well, it's all a big company play, isn't it? - with a dozen companies and subsidiaries that are still all owned by Qantas, when it comes to the crunch?
Cobham (formerly National Jet, to those who came in late, as the Phantom says) talk of "providing services" to QantasLink and Australian Air Express - but Qantas still owns them all.
Technically, you're correct, but it's all a big paperwork exercise designed to minimise tax and gain other financial "arms length" advantages.