Posted on 01/15/2011 11:49:40 AM PST by george76
THERE'S been another engine failure on a Qantas aircraft, this time as it was preparing to take off at Sydney Airport. Flight QF11 to Los Angeles, carrying 344 passengers...
Passengers on the 747 described hearing "a loud bang" and then watching as black smoke poured out of the crippled engine.
The captain then reportedly announced over the intercom that the engine had "cooked itself".
A spokeswoman for Qantas said the plane was on the runway and cleared for take-off when it had a "low-speed engine failure".
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
This is happening because the stars shifted the Zodiac.
Whatever that means.
:p
This is happening because the stars shifted the Zodiac.
Whatever that means.
:p
This makes at least 4 episodes of Quantas Airlines failures in the last few months. This is smelling like sabotage. Quantas needs to hire a security firm. Ever hear of this from El Al? Nope.
That & every so tiny every onward moves toward “economy” by the budget minded clean fingernail crowd at all levels with no regard or awareness for quality of outcome.
Statistically your supposition is plausible.
More likely is not so much OVERT sabotage but shoddy PM work or LOTS of FOD from the airports they serve.
I’ll go with FOD coupled with poor inspections.
QANTAS. QANTAS never crashed
I was thinking along those lines as well.
Who’s doing their engine overhaul work or is it being done as required?
FOD on the flightline is a very common and real possibility.
The engine will be inspected and the cause found.
Qantas seems to be having a good run of bad luck.
No, they just need to switch brands of engines, and dump the current ones to create artificial reefs for fish. You only read about the RR engines having catastrophic failure on the 380s.
The 747 I believe doesn't use RR engines....unless that's a recent switch I wasn't aware of. I always thought 747s used P&W or GE engines.
They need to check the people who have access to their aircraft, not just the mechanics, and look for names like Mohammed El Arabani and then hire a security firm.
That reminds me of the 1970s cartoon of two men sitting in adjacent seats on an airplane with a box on each's lap. One says to the other, "The odds of two of us independently bringing a bomb on this flight must be astronomical!"
I'm old enough to remember the earlier versions which did not use RR...they used either P&W or GE, but not RR. The way I remembered this is because the 757 always used RR- which I thought was kind of neat...but that the 737 and 747 did not.
Its not the version, its the airlines choice. QANTAS, British Airways and I believe Cathay Pacific use RR engines. I think Japan Airlines and United use GE.
Yup, mechanic on a jihad.
In Australia, the planes are upside down.
But the is a different Rolls Royce engine on a 747 not on an A380.
Most of QANTAS and all of British Airways 747's use RR engines.
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