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Posted by clubwah on August 4, 2008
OK, so the oxygen bottle incident on the Melbourne-bound Qantas 747 last week was serious, and it was very fortunate that no passengers were hurt or even killed.
But, as is often the case when these things occur, the media tried to follow it up with other incidents to make out that there’s some kind of problem or epidemic. So it was that the news oeganisations went berserk when a Qantas jet returned to Adelaide because an undercarriage door failed to close – to be fair you’d only ever return to Adelaide in the case of a dire emergency but Qantas admits there was no danger to passengers. There were reports from “passengers” that there was mayhem in the cabin, but this proved to be utter bullshit.
All episodes like this come in threes if you look hard and sure enough it happened when a Qantas jet had to return to Sydney after a hydraulic leak caused oil to mist from the wing. The aircraft has three back-up hydralic systems so again there was never any danger to the aircraft or those on board.
Then today there was a fourth incident for the week which, according to The Australian, a Tokyo-bound 747 was grounded at the last minute so it can change a faulty part, and passengers have been told to wait at Sydney Airport while the part is replaced and tested.
How is that a fucking safety scare? That fact the problem was found during a routine inspection shows safety at work.
Things like this happen to aircraft every day and to start lumping every tiny incident like this into a dossier of “embarrassing safety gaffes” is stupid reporting to say the least.
Stop insulting our intelligence and fuck off.
Qantas is not the only airline to have the yips in the past couple of weeks:
On July 20, a Northwest Airlines Boeing 757 made an emergency landing in Tampa Florida when a engine computer failed.
On July 29 A Vietnam Alirlines Boeing 777 made an emergency landing in Tokyo after an engine caught fire.
On July 31 Cathay Pacific Boeing 747 landed in Vancouver safely after sustaining damage to its fuselage in flight.
On August 2 a Russian Red Wings Airline Tupolev Tu-204 airliner made an emergency airliner in Minsk after an engine engine failure.
On August 3, a United Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Beijing to San Fransisco had to return to China because of a faulty landing gear.
raydixon said
Thank Christ it was in 1st class, you’d never see me in there!
Seiously though, I think this is a job for Dick Smith, who I heard on the radio today screaming (literally) at the ABC radio interviewer (Kathy Bedford on Statewide) about an inquest into the Benalla air crash, “WHY WASN’T DICK SMITH ALLOWED TO GIVE EVIDENCE? THE NEXT TIME THERE’S AN INCIDENT LIKE THIS PEOPLE WILL DIE!!!”
Umm, people DID die Dick and Dick Smith isn’t welcome because Dick Smith is a fucken raving lunatic who thinks only HE knows how to run the aviation industry. Go jump on another pogo stick Dick … head.
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Airbus crash in France said
And then on the other hand, an inexperienced crew crashes one of the new Airbus A340-600s and you hardly hear a word about it. News? Bullshit scare tactics more like.
Andy B said
Yes, you really gotta watch out for those engine engine failures.
clubwah said
Notice we haven’t heard more of that British Airways 777 crash where the plane conked out just before landing at Heathrow? Did it run our of fuel as speculated?
LuLi said
Its good to keep the public at a state of low hysteria. We cough up money for stupid reasons more easily. Perhaps they’re putting a new ‘guaranteed safety ticket’ into the system.
kaboose84 said
Aren’t there statistics saying that flying the safest means of transportation anyway?
cookemedia said
I heard more people are killed by asses than plane-prangs. It’s donkeys you need to watch out for. Maybe we can fit them with seat belts and safety cards. It’s the great unreported issue of our time.