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Qantas 747- 400 Flight 30 Blowout Hole!

What a ticket?

THey all lived?

Excellent.........

sounds like a panel blew off the plane.

How scary.......even if no muslims were in on it.

2001.
 
What? You mean "Airport" and "Goldfinger" are not accurate when it comes to the effects of a hole being torn in a plane?
 
dudalb said:
What? You mean "Airport" and "Goldfinger" are not accurate when it comes to the effects of a hole being torn in a plane?
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Yes, of course they are. Do not be misled by stories issued by the BBC, they are well-known pushers of mis-information.
I have several friends in London, none know anyone that was on that 'plane'. Likewise my colleague in Melbourne; he has yet to hear from anyone involved in the 'incident'.
I know no-one in the 'Philippines'; I am not convinced it even exists.

Please also disregard the Myth Busters episode dealing with a related topic.

V.

ps. to the crew: Woot!
 
An interesting backnote to this is that Qantas has been in a dispute with it's engineers and have been getting a lot of maintenance performed off-shore, mainly in Asia. The engineers' union leader was quoted as saying "we would love to be able to say that this was caused by underprices maintenance..." Presumedly if there were fatalities they would been even more delighted.
 
Concerns were raised several months ago about the safety of passenger jet that made an emergency landing on Friday after a hole appeared in its fuselage.

Entries in an online engineers' forum in February referred to the detection of corrosion during a maintenance check on the plane, a Qantas Boeing 747.

Qantas said the plane had undergone checks but no faults were detected.

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Safety concerns were raised about the 17-year-old Boeing 747-438 Longreach in posts on an online engineers' forum in February, which referred to the detection of "serious corrosion issues" during a maintenance check at Avalon airport in March.
"Sources tell me the launch date has further slipped once to 5th of March... Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope OJK [the plane involved in mid-air drama] recovers from her plastic surgery," one participant wrote.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7526637.stm
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Personally I think it was a missile fired towards the plane by a sooper seekret US ship which was trying to hit a UFO.

It's a cover-up I tells ya.
 
The corrosion is not related to this incident, according to a CASA spokesperson:

Mr Gibson said no possible cause for the fuselage failure would be discounted.

"It's clearly an extremely rare and unusual event that a hole opens up in the fuselage," he told reporters.

"I know there's a number of theories around, but they're just that at this stage, they're just theories.

"We don't have the solid facts ..."

But, he said, the theory that rust played a part could be discounted.

"Speculation in some quarters, of corrosion found in the aircraft earlier this year can in no way be related to this accident.

"That corrosion was found in a seat assembly, in the economy class, totally different part of the aircraft, totally different components.

"So, that particular corrosion that people are talking about can't be related to this incident.

"But, of course, there are a multitude of other factors that will have to be investigated."

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I am always fascinated by incidents like these, and, in particular, the response of the people involved (such as passengers). In this case, we can get a pretty good debriefing of the passengers to get a feel for what was going on. I am even more curious about plane crashes (such as the one in Souix City). On one hand, I think it would be amazing to talk to survivors to get their take on what it was like a) knowing they were going to crash, and b) actually crashing. However, OTOH, given the trauma of the experience, I don't think it would be a tactful thing to bring up, and may be hard for them to describe. I understand.

Yet, the psychology there is fascinating.
 
lionking said:
An interesting backnote to this is that Qantas has been in a dispute with it's engineers and have been getting a lot of maintenance performed off-shore, mainly in Asia. The engineers' union leader was quoted as saying "we would love to be able to say that this was caused by underprices maintenance..." Presumedly if there were fatalities they would been even more delighted.
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I wonder what the engineer's union would say if it turns out it was their guys who performed the maintenance?
 
Hokulele said:
They were lucky.

It could have been much worse.
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It depends on what your definition of worst is. One more person died in that incident than right here.
I wonder what the engineer's union would say if it turns out it was their guys who performed the maintenance?
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I would be wondering what the hell would mechanics be doing in the engineers union and who the hell would lump engineers with mechanics.
 
pgwenthold said:
I am always fascinated by incidents like these, and, in particular, the response of the people involved (such as passengers). In this case, we can get a pretty good debriefing of the passengers to get a feel for what was going on. I am even more curious about plane crashes (such as the one in Souix City). On one hand, I think it would be amazing to talk to survivors to get their take on what it was like a) knowing they were going to crash, and b) actually crashing. However, OTOH, given the trauma of the experience, I don't think it would be a tactful thing to bring up, and may be hard for them to describe. I understand.

Yet, the psychology there is fascinating.
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Not a crash, but British Airways Flight 009 (a 747 that lost all 4 engines after flying through volcanic ash over Indonesia) was an interesting case. The crew and passengers formed the Galunggung Gliding Club and many still keep in touch. There was a bit on TV here recently when the pilot from that flight (Eric Moody) came over with his wife for one of the reunions. People were still very emotional about it even after 26 years. More here.
 
Magenta said:
Not a crash, but British Airways Flight 009 (a 747 that lost all 4 engines after flying through volcanic ash over Indonesia) was an interesting case. The crew and passengers formed the Galunggung Gliding Club and many still keep in touch. There was a bit on TV here recently when the pilot from that flight (Eric Moody) came over with his wife for one of the reunions. People were still very emotional about it even after 26 years. More here.
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You are now entering the Twilight Zone....................

Flight BA-009(Falling from the Sky) - 1/3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QxhiJnhI-p4

It really seems like fiction.
 
Hokulele said:
They were lucky.

It could have been much worse.
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My parents were friends with a lady, I can't remember her first name but her last name was Taintor, who trained the Flight Attendant crew that was on Aloha 243 and was a friend of Lansing who was the only fatality. Considering how that crew acted she must have done a pretty good job.
 
cyclonic said:
You are now entering the Twilight Zone....................
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Thanks for that!

Update for QF30. Preliminary investigation has found no evidence of a bomb; investigators are focussing on the oxygen cylinders:

A senior Australian Transportation Safety Bureau inspector, Neville Blyth, told a Manila media conference that one cylinder was missing from a bank of cylinders in the damaged area.

Mr Blyth said no evidence had been found of explosives.

He said cylinders were a source of stored pressure, like a coiled spring. "And it is possible, if there was a release of that energy, for it to cause damage."

There would be a full "materials investigation" and a great deal of technical information analysed.

"All I am reporting is the factual information that in the vicinity of the damage we are missing one cylinder," Mr Blyth said.

"The area around the damage will be inspected and we are obviously looking for evidence of where the cylinder may have gone and for fragments."

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