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!!!

Please excuse these colonials: they can't even spell. It's "writeoff", Bloggs! :=

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!:=:=:=

Well, right off it may be a writeoff.:)

Hope it gets posted on You Tube! :p

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

jeeez guys - we're all slipping. Almost 24 hours later and not a single pix or video grab!

what about the bits that were leftoff?

Sorry, bin mucking around. Finally got this from one of me mates who took it from under a tree while he was having a Fosters waiting for the next wingeing cricket outfit to come downunder...

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...)

Sorry - don't know the url - I just get daily emails from a news service that sometimes includes aviation-related articles:

Capn Bloggs:

Now that was NOT a soft landing, methinks!

That clip is at least two years old.

Me thinks it is from the original certification of the MD-80 or even older the DC-9. I've seen this before, maybe from my first DC-9 training in the mid 80's.

As it says in the caption this video is from 1983 and its at Edwards AFB

http://www.jacdec.de/news/news.htm

Knackered by all accounts

There are a huge number of landing-related accidents in that report.

Looks like QFs first write-off has finally occured!

there might be a common misunderstanding about QF´s "legendary" safety record...Qantas is not free of write-off accidents, even decades ago, but it happened.

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..

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.

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