QF30 Emergency Landing in MNL after door "Popped"
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Re: QF30 Emergency Landing in MNL after door "Popped"
From an Aviation Industry perspective the Friday Australian Aviation section is the only one worth anything, so I'll be interested to see what they have to say tomorrow.
Re: QF30 Emergency Landing in MNL after door "Popped"
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Originally Posted by straitman
From an Aviation Industry perspective the Friday Australian Aviation section is the only one worth anything, so I'll be interested to see what they have to say tomorrow.
Can we assume that there was not much of interest last week?
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A BURSTING oxygen cylinder blew the hole in the fuselage of a Qantas jet last month that forced it to make an emergency landing in the Philippines, a report finds.
The tank failed and burst, blasting through the cabin floor from a storage area between business and economy class seats on a Hong Kong to Melbourne flight last month, a preliminary report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) found.
Qantas welcomed the release today by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) of its preliminary investigation report into the depressurisation incident and diversion to Manila of the B747-400 operating QF30 on 25 July 2008.
The report indicates that one of the aircraft's 13 passenger oxygen system cylinders failed and that while the fuselage and some flight systems sustained damage, the aircraft continued to operate safely and landed in Manila without further incident.
..as for repairs...
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"Preparations for these repairs are underway, with the work to be carried out in Manila by Lufthansa Technik in consultation with Boeing and Qantas engineers."
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Headline "Qantas passengers 'lucky' not to have been hit during drama"
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It also hit an exit door handle, pushing it to "open".
A claim later explained by saying:
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The bottle appeared to have pushed the exit door handle from the closed position to open. But the handle shaft had fractured, meaning the door was not open even though the handle showed it was.
(implying that they were lucky that the handle shaft fractured)
A terrifying incident aboard a Qantas jet which saw a hole blasted in the fuselage by an exploding oxygen tank could happen again, the federal government has warned.
Air safety investigators announced on Friday that they were yet to find out why the oxygen cylinder exploded mid-air, forcing an emergency landing in Manila for the Boeing 747, which was carrying 346 passengers.
Actually, I would have thought that given thay don't know what caused it, the fact it could happen again was self-evident.
(I'm not sure the governement warned it ould happen again - just answered yes when asked if it could!)
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Re: QF30 Emergency Landing in MNL after door "Popped"
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"Preparations for these repairs are underway, with the work to be carried out in Manila by Lufthansa Technik in consultation with Boeing and Qantas engineers."
Oh dear we are all going to die - Johnny Foreigner under the supervision of the nasty krauts fixing our aircraft - end of the world stuff...
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