QATAR Airways QTR28N Mel-Doh
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QATAR Airways QTR28N Mel-Doh
Flight took off from MEL at approximately 22:20ADST 8th Feb 2020. Currently flying at approx 8800ft Grd speed 260MPH. Doing laps of the bay area. Nothing on news feeds. Probably dumping fuel.
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It's a Qatar A380 - here's the Flight Radar link - https://www.flightradar24.com/QTR28N/23cbfcc2
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QR905/QTR28N has finished fuel dump, requests 30 minutes more holding to burn fuel. Descending to 6000 feet.
After takeoff QTR28N reported a 'gear retraction problem' to ATC at the beginning of this clip:
https://archive-server.liveatc.net/y...2020-1130Z.mp3
LiveATC audio: https://www.liveatc.net/hlisten.php?...mml3&icao=ymml
FR24: https://www.flightradar24.com/QTR28N/23cbfcc2
After takeoff QTR28N reported a 'gear retraction problem' to ATC at the beginning of this clip:
https://archive-server.liveatc.net/y...2020-1130Z.mp3
LiveATC audio: https://www.liveatc.net/hlisten.php?...mml3&icao=ymml
FR24: https://www.flightradar24.com/QTR28N/23cbfcc2
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"gear retraction problem"
Yeah, keep the gear down ! You'll burn fuel more quickly that way, if the problem is to much fuel.
Now assuming that they had 4 good working engines, why the hell concentrate the fuel dump in a bay ?
What would be the problem taking it out to the sea, and even to an higher altitude to reduce concentration, and dump there ?
Yeah, keep the gear down ! You'll burn fuel more quickly that way, if the problem is to much fuel.
Now assuming that they had 4 good working engines, why the hell concentrate the fuel dump in a bay ?
What would be the problem taking it out to the sea, and even to an higher altitude to reduce concentration, and dump there ?
Zerograv: Large international airports have designated fuel jettison areas with associated minimum altitudes to ensure complete evaporation of the fuel.. For example, CYYZ has a designated area over Lake Ontario, CYVR up the Howe Sound about 35nm northwest of the airport, ZBAA has one about 20nm NNE of the field. The aircrews don’t just dump fuel wherever they feel like it.
Interesting holding pattern, not quite the standard racetrack. Is that just countless vectors over the water or is there a way to plot the hold in the A380?
Interesting to see if the snapper and flatheads caught from the bay have a nice kerosene taste for a while.
Interesting to see if the snapper and flatheads caught from the bay have a nice kerosene taste for a while.
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Zerograv: Large international airports have designated fuel jettison areas with associated minimum altitudes to ensure complete evaporation of the fuel.. For example, CYYZ has a designated area over Lake Ontario, CYVR up the Howe Sound about 35nm northwest of the airport, ZBAA has one about 20nm NNE of the field. The aircrews don’t just dump fuel wherever they feel like it.
Now I know that the designated dumping area in Melbourne is the bay south of town.
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Discussion of the dump plan starting about 10 minutes into this LiveATC.net clip:
https://archive-server.liveatc.net/y...2020-1200Z.mp3
Just musing .. presumably if 120 T of kerosene evaporates in a relatively small area, it must condense at some point. So will it rain (very) dilute kerosene wherever that moist air from above the bay ends up over the next few days. At what dilution % age will you still be able to smell it ?
When something evaporates, it's because the ambient conditions favor that (if I remember right, the vapor pressure of the liquid has to be more than the ambient partial pressure of its vapor). It doesn't condense again unless the conditions change. And since the partial pressure of kerosene vapor would drop as it mixes into the atmosphere, subsequent condensation seems pretty unlikely.
I'm not sure what eventually happens to it. My guess would be that it oxidizes over time (forming water vapor and CO2). Maybe it stays in the atmosphere for a length of time, diluted to undetectable levels. But there are many other ways that petrochemicals get evaporated into the atmosphere (doubtless totaling much large amounts), and we generally don't walk around smelling them.
I'm not sure what eventually happens to it. My guess would be that it oxidizes over time (forming water vapor and CO2). Maybe it stays in the atmosphere for a length of time, diluted to undetectable levels. But there are many other ways that petrochemicals get evaporated into the atmosphere (doubtless totaling much large amounts), and we generally don't walk around smelling them.
When something evaporates, it's because the ambient conditions favor that (if I remember right, the vapor pressure of the liquid has to be more than the ambient partial pressure of its vapor). It doesn't condense again unless the conditions change. And since the partial pressure of kerosene vapor would drop as it mixes into the atmosphere, subsequent condensation seems pretty unlikely.
I'm not sure what eventually happens to it. My guess would be that it oxidizes over time (forming water vapor and CO2). Maybe it stays in the atmosphere for a length of time, diluted to undetectable levels. But there are many other ways that petrochemicals get evaporated into the atmosphere (doubtless totaling much large amounts), and we generally don't walk around smelling them.
I'm not sure what eventually happens to it. My guess would be that it oxidizes over time (forming water vapor and CO2). Maybe it stays in the atmosphere for a length of time, diluted to undetectable levels. But there are many other ways that petrochemicals get evaporated into the atmosphere (doubtless totaling much large amounts), and we generally don't walk around smelling them.
Zerograv: Large international airports have designated fuel jettison areas with associated minimum altitudes to ensure complete evaporation of the fuel.. For example, CYYZ has a designated area over Lake Ontario, CYVR up the Howe Sound about 35nm northwest of the airport, ZBAA has one about 20nm NNE of the field. The aircrews don’t just dump fuel wherever they feel like it.
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Hydraulic problem with reduced braking? Number 1 and 4 reversers inop? For some reason they had to divert but were in no hurry to get on the ground.