Qantas Emergency Return KSFO, Explosion in Engine?
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From: Otamatata
DA50driver
You have obviously forgetten the Avianca B707 incident near New York when plain english failed to convey the extreme nature of the situation. A mayday call is the clearest phrase possible
but since most of here speak English of some sort we can actually communicate by conveying actual information.
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From: Australia
On the Channel 9 news clip in Australia this is the announcement from the flight deck, recorded on someone's video:
"Ladies and Gentlemen as you can appreciate we are a tad busy on the flight deck at the moment and we'll come back to you with some more information. In the mean time you must be assured that we are trained for this situation - normally in a simulator of course but we are trained for it so rest assured everything is under control."
The pictures don't show any slides deployed.
"Ladies and Gentlemen as you can appreciate we are a tad busy on the flight deck at the moment and we'll come back to you with some more information. In the mean time you must be assured that we are trained for this situation - normally in a simulator of course but we are trained for it so rest assured everything is under control."
The pictures don't show any slides deployed.
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From: Gweriniaeth Cymru
dream747,
I don't think anyone would describe Channel 9 as "Aviation Journalism". More like Fox News with lots of:
"Oh My God! The pilot circled for about an hour, he had to dump all the fuel that he had. And now, a story about a 2 headed sheep from New Zealand"
The serious aviation journalists of this world are still relatively sober and not sensationalist.
Brgd's
N1 Vibes
I don't think anyone would describe Channel 9 as "Aviation Journalism". More like Fox News with lots of:
"Oh My God! The pilot circled for about an hour, he had to dump all the fuel that he had. And now, a story about a 2 headed sheep from New Zealand"
The serious aviation journalists of this world are still relatively sober and not sensationalist.
Brgd's
N1 Vibes
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From: The Smaller Antipode
I thought Charlie shot Roger and took over, unofficially. Something to do with certain Asian tongues having difficulty with their RRRR's ?? Certainly Charlie suddenly seemed to be around in certain areas. Could be wrong of course.
We've been wondering for years - but then weren't we told that five loaves and two fishes fed about 10 million once ? nothing new under the sun.
If aviation journalism is this bad and inaccurate all over, how reliable are their other stories in all other fields? It makes you wonder!
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From: Faulconbridge
I wonder if the QF Tech crews and LAMEs' have nice wet pockets after the following quote from Mr Epstein, the $300k motormouth. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/01/2999463.htm?section=justin
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From: Check with Ops
The pictures don't show any slides deployed
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From: London, New York, Paris, Moscow.
Not having much luck with their 74's are they.....
.Air passengers' mid-flight terror as hole is blown in Qantas 747 fuselage - Times Online
.Air passengers' mid-flight terror as hole is blown in Qantas 747 fuselage - Times Online
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From: flyover country USA
An uncontained failure means the engine case was breached.
It takes a LOT of energy to do that. Think a piece of a rotor, with the mass and velocity of a cannonball, ripping through a steel case.
If you ever experienced one, YOU would certainly call it an explosion. The media get plenty of aviation stories wrong, but DON'T criticize them for calling this an explosion.
It takes a LOT of energy to do that. Think a piece of a rotor, with the mass and velocity of a cannonball, ripping through a steel case.
If you ever experienced one, YOU would certainly call it an explosion. The media get plenty of aviation stories wrong, but DON'T criticize them for calling this an explosion.
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From: London-Thailand-Australia
Not having much luck with their 74's are they.....
Both very different stories, and after all the media hysteria settles down we will find that this incident was handled very well indeed by the crew as it was with QF30 at RPLL.
By Pontius That's because they landed, normally, off a 3-engine approach (which is really NOT a big deal in a 747) and then made their way to a normal parking stand. There's no need to evacuate the aircraft just because you've had an engine failure, hence the lack of slides.
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Pax speaking:
To be pedantic it could be written, "The engine failed with explosive force" but the 'bang' would have sounded like an explosion. They were fortunate that it blew out so early in the sector and neither earlier nor later. I hate to say it but - gimme four of the beasties.
To be pedantic it could be written, "The engine failed with explosive force" but the 'bang' would have sounded like an explosion. They were fortunate that it blew out so early in the sector and neither earlier nor later. I hate to say it but - gimme four of the beasties.