Yet another incident (from AFP via Breitbart):
Flight attendants ask Qantas to explain incidents
Aug 2 11:42 PM US/Eastern
Qantas flight attendants want assurances from management that the Australian carrier’s planes are safe after a third mid-air incident in two weeks, a union official said Sunday.
Attendants are concerned about media reports about maintenance practices at Qantas and do not have the specialised knowledge to assess the incidents, said Steven Reed, president of the Flight Attendants Association of Australia.
“We want some assurances from the company that these are isolated incidents,” Reed said. “We need to meet with the company at a senior level to have these assurances.”
The latest trouble came on Saturday, when a Qantas Boeing 767 bound for Manila was forced to turn back to Sydney after developing a leak of hydraulic fluid while in the air.
On July 25, a Qantas Boeing 747-400 en route to Melbourne from Hong Kong made an emergency landing in Manila after a blast believed to have been caused by an exploding oxygen cylinder ripped a large hole in its fuselage.
Then last Monday, a Qantas 737-800 was forced to return to Adelaide after a landing gear door failed to retract.
By: steve rowell - 8th August 2008 at 08:08
Again
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24147906-12377,00.html
By: cloud_9 - 5th August 2008 at 11:06
The O2 bottle letting go (if it was that) was just one of thouse things that happens in aviation. It was unuseual but if that had happened to another airline, would it have had the same media interest?
I would expect it would have the same media attention regardless of what airline it happened to because the aircraft would have had to of made an emergency decent (or ‘death-defying nose-dive’, as the media would probably put it!:diablo:) to a safer flight-level before making an emergency landing.
…and there’s no u in Qantas
Although I already knew this, its the only word that I can think of that begins with ‘Q’ that is not followed by a ‘u’…or are there any other words I have missed?
By: Cking - 5th August 2008 at 00:50
This just makes my blood boil! The media are on a witch hunt now and will publicise the least little problem with any of the Quantas fleet.
It’s their turn in the barrel. next week it will be somebody else.
“kwantarse jet runs out of tooth picks, passengers scream in terror!!”
The O2 bottle letting go (if it was that) was just one of thouse things that happens in aviation. It was unuseual but if that had happened to another airline, would it have had the same media interest?
Rgds Cking
By: steve rowell - 5th August 2008 at 00:29
This just makes my blood boil! The media are on a witch hunt now and will publicise the least little problem with any of the Quantas fleet.
True..and there’s no u in Qantas
By: Peter - 3rd August 2008 at 23:01
This just makes my blood boil! The media are on a witch hunt now and will publicise the least little problem with any of the Qantas fleet.
By: JetSet - 3rd August 2008 at 22:56
Well hopefully, fingers crossed that will be the last for another good number of years.
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August 3, 2008 at 9:02 pm