Qantas A330 stuck in mud
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Qantas A330 stuck in mud
Bit of a non-event reported in the Sydney Morning Herald today - those journos are reading here!
"A Qantas jet that got bogged at Sydney airport is the latest in a series of mishaps to dog the Australian airline.
Maintenance workers took a shortcut while towing an aircraft along a taxiway on Friday, which landed it in trouble, according to a number of witnesses' accounts on the professional pilot rumour network website http://www.pprune.org
The Airbus A330, laden with fuel but not carrying passengers, was due to fly to Tokyo, but because of the mishap the flight was cancelled.
Qantas confirmed the incident saying a towbar holding the aircraft to the truck had failed and two of the jet's wheels went onto the grass beside the taxiway.
"Obviously it is a fairly unusual incident," a Qantas spokesman told AAP.
"It was all resolved relatively quickly - there were no passengers on it, there was no inconvenience to any passengers."
After being pulled out the plane returned to operations within 12 hours, he said.
It is understood a safety advisory note, called a NOTAM (notice to airmen) - which alerts pilots to changes at airports and in airspace - was issued about some changes to the taxiway.
Emergency vehicles were seen surrounding the jet.
One observer told the pprune website: "(It) looked hilarious, all the orange safety car lights going off around it."
It has been a tough few months for the flying kangaroo, including a mid-air incident over Western Australia, an exploding oxygen tank blowing a hole in the fuselage on an international flight, security screening breaches and a number of maintenance incidents."
"A Qantas jet that got bogged at Sydney airport is the latest in a series of mishaps to dog the Australian airline.
Maintenance workers took a shortcut while towing an aircraft along a taxiway on Friday, which landed it in trouble, according to a number of witnesses' accounts on the professional pilot rumour network website http://www.pprune.org
The Airbus A330, laden with fuel but not carrying passengers, was due to fly to Tokyo, but because of the mishap the flight was cancelled.
Qantas confirmed the incident saying a towbar holding the aircraft to the truck had failed and two of the jet's wheels went onto the grass beside the taxiway.
"Obviously it is a fairly unusual incident," a Qantas spokesman told AAP.
"It was all resolved relatively quickly - there were no passengers on it, there was no inconvenience to any passengers."
After being pulled out the plane returned to operations within 12 hours, he said.
It is understood a safety advisory note, called a NOTAM (notice to airmen) - which alerts pilots to changes at airports and in airspace - was issued about some changes to the taxiway.
Emergency vehicles were seen surrounding the jet.
One observer told the pprune website: "(It) looked hilarious, all the orange safety car lights going off around it."
It has been a tough few months for the flying kangaroo, including a mid-air incident over Western Australia, an exploding oxygen tank blowing a hole in the fuselage on an international flight, security screening breaches and a number of maintenance incidents."
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Let's have no lessons please about QANTAS safety or any nonsense! A VERY low grade taxi tow incident with no damage and hardly any repercussions is hardly worth any wagging fingers! Such incidents happen at many airports most days!
Is there any way of blaming this on outsourcing of Engineering to the Far East?
Is there any way of blaming this on outsourcing of Engineering to the Far East?
