Qantas Link 717 hard landing Darwin
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Qantas Link 717 hard landing Darwin
Heard thru the grapevine a Qantas Link 717 had a hard landing in Darwin last night.
So hard it may be a rightoff!! maybe bent mainspar and engine mounts damaged, u/c mounts damaged.
The landing pilot had a history of hard landings , this time she may have totaled the A/C!!!
So hard it may be a rightoff!! maybe bent mainspar and engine mounts damaged, u/c mounts damaged.
The landing pilot had a history of hard landings , this time she may have totaled the A/C!!!
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Must a lie perpetrated by third world pilots. Qantas pilots, true blue fair dinkums totalling tin...what sacrilege!!! Wash your mouth and cleanse your sick mind pronto!
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Yes it happened.
Here is the story so far.
No one was injured in the crash, but there was substantial damage to the Boeing 717.
The ATSB's safety investigation report says the passenger jet hit an area of high sink just before landing causing it to drop quickly.
It hit the runway so hard that the aircraft's fuselage wrinkled.
The Boeing 717 had flown from Nhulunbuy and was carrying 84 passengers
Here is the story so far.
No one was injured in the crash, but there was substantial damage to the Boeing 717.
The ATSB's safety investigation report says the passenger jet hit an area of high sink just before landing causing it to drop quickly.
It hit the runway so hard that the aircraft's fuselage wrinkled.
The Boeing 717 had flown from Nhulunbuy and was carrying 84 passengers
jeeez guys - we're all slipping. Almost 24 hours later and not a single pix or video grab!
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/mc...ing/3243417730
(actually footage of a Maddog test flight. I think the test pilot forgot that he was in an MD-80, not his F-4! Same company, wrong jet...)
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Sorry - don't know the url - I just get daily emails from a news service that sometimes includes aviation-related articles:
Qantas Boeing 'wrinkled' in hard landing in Darwin
Ben Sandilands writes:
Qantas is in damage control this morning trying to hide a Qantaslink Boeing 717 that was so severely damaged in a hard landing at Darwin last Thursday that it may be a write-off. No reports, no photos, no survivor interviews, indeed no recognition of any sort has appeared in the media for almost four days. No-one was injured in the "incident" that dared not show its face until an inquiry into it was officially listed on the air safety data base today.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says it is investigating the incident which happened in a jet configured with 115 seats and flown by National Jet under contract to Qantas. The air safety investigator says on its website that "On final approach the aircraft entered an area of high sink and made a heavy landing. Wrinkling was later found in the aft fuselage. Damage: Substantial".
There were 11 Boeing 717s in the Qantaslink fleet.
Ben Sandilands writes:
Qantas is in damage control this morning trying to hide a Qantaslink Boeing 717 that was so severely damaged in a hard landing at Darwin last Thursday that it may be a write-off. No reports, no photos, no survivor interviews, indeed no recognition of any sort has appeared in the media for almost four days. No-one was injured in the "incident" that dared not show its face until an inquiry into it was officially listed on the air safety data base today.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says it is investigating the incident which happened in a jet configured with 115 seats and flown by National Jet under contract to Qantas. The air safety investigator says on its website that "On final approach the aircraft entered an area of high sink and made a heavy landing. Wrinkling was later found in the aft fuselage. Damage: Substantial".
There were 11 Boeing 717s in the Qantaslink fleet.
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Looks like QFs first write-off has finally occured!
a little reminder (the 744 @ BKK did in fact fly again):
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...e.php?var=4842
and thats by far not all. QF lost lots of flying boats in the 40s, some of them including fatalities. maybe someone is coming up with more detailed facts..
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Yes it may have the rat on the tail...but its actually QANTAS LINK, operated by NATIONAL JET. So not a QANTAS write off, rather a National Jet write off, much to the disappointment of some here so it appears.
Not quite sure any of you seem so happy at the prospect of any airline writing a plane off, but such is life, there are always bottom feeders.
Not quite sure any of you seem so happy at the prospect of any airline writing a plane off, but such is life, there are always bottom feeders.
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Just wondering: since QF 707s entered service in 1959, have there been ANY write-offs of Australian commercial jet aircraft? I know TAA lost a Viscount and Ansett lost one or two aircraft, but not jets; if this aircraft is confirmed as a write-off, would this be the first - of any Australian airline.
Qantas fatalities
Qantas had several fatal crashes during WWII. Out of their control of course, at least two Qantas flying boats were shot down by Japanese fighters during the fall of Singapore, with multiple casualties, and at least one dissapeared without trace.
http://www.qantas.com.au/info/about/history/details10
http://www.qantas.com.au/info/about/history/details10