Qantas plane lands after cockpit fire

[Greatbirdlegend]

 

Is it just me or do we keep getting near misses news from Qantas??

I'm personally not ever flying this airline again.

 

Qantas plane lands after cockpit fire

AFP | Thu, Mar 24 2011

 

There were 'no ill effects or injuries' experienced by passengers and crew on the Manila-Sydney flight.

Qantas plane lands after cockpit fire

 

 

The plane was en route from Manila to Sydney on Wednesday afternoon when an electrical fault caused smoke and small flames near the left-hand windscreen of the cockpit.

 

The pilots used an extinguisher to douse the fire and diverted to Cairns, in tropical north Queensland.

 

"There were no ill effects or injuries experienced by any of the 147 passengers or 11 crew, and all passengers were accommodated on other domestic services to complete their journey to Sydney," Qantas said in a statement.

 

A passenger told The Sydney Morning Herald that the incident was "truly scary".

 

"There was a burning smell in the cabin that was very strong, and then the captain came over the loudspeaker and explained an electrical problem meant there was a serious risk of fire," he said.

 

"Later he explained flames had come back for a second time and they'd had to use a fire extinguisher in the cockpit."

 

Qantas has endured a string of dramatic incidents in the past few months.

 

Last November it temporarily suspended flights of its Airbus A380 superjumbos after an engine on one exploded after taking off from Singapore, damaging the plane.

 

Then in January, a flight bound for New York made an unscheduled stop in Fiji after the Boeing 747 developed a problem with a fuel valve supplying one of its engines.

 

Soon after, another Boeing 747 suffered mid-air mechanical trouble soon after taking off from Bangkok and was forced to return to the Thai capital.

 

[Timex1441]

seems like they have solid pilots but very unreliable maintenance engineers....

[Greatbirdlegend]

seems like they have solid pilots but very unreliable maintenance engineers....

 

Read before that they outsourced their maintenance to Malaysia.

Not sure if this is still true.

[SimonTan]

When the management sub-out the servicing and maintenance to the cheap-skate contractors....of course the rot will show eventually.

 

Dont say aeroplane sure got 10,000checklist items to tick for each maintenance......

Our humble car also got 50 checklist items, already the lazy service crew will skip the coolent top-up, brake-line fluid check, fuel line lea-test, etc.

 

 

 

[Dankoo]

I heard that for plane maintenance. it depends if the airline wants to do the full checks, to cut cost, they can opt out those they deemed unneccessary

[Whathefish]

knn ...QAntas again? tot they are the safest airline.....recently keep kana this type of news

[Shull]

knn ...QAntas again? tot they are the safest airline.....recently keep kana this type of news

 

precisely because they are damn safe, any small thing, the pilot will be asked to do emergency landing..

[Timex1441]

precisely because they are damn safe, any small thing, the pilot will be asked to do emergency landing..

dun think, in this case, cockpit fire is "small" thing leh

[Greatbirdlegend]

dun think, in this case, cockpit fire is "small" thing leh

 

Ya I also remember the last one A380 engine blowout?

Bloody scary mate if you ask me.