Low flying 747
 

Just wondering if anyone with radar or some sydney guru's can tell what 744 passed over nowra at about 1500 local.

Was quiet low, if it was qf63 to jnb i'm guessing it was running pretty late. But normally even that flight passes over at about 20,000ft.

Unfortuneatly i wasn't quick enough to grab the camera to get a shot of it.

Cheers

Adam

Was it definately a 747?

Nowra doesn't really see any 747 traffic other than QF63 which departed at approx 10am today so that wasn't it.

What direction was it headed in?

After a little bit of research the aircraft flew into YSCB at flight FJI1, B744. Air Pacific government flight?

I don't know if this sheds any light on it:

DQ-FJK SQ0001 14/05/2009 14:31 Air Pacific B747-412 --------

DQ-FJC operated the NAN service today.

There definitely wasn't any 747 at Canberra today to the best of my knowledge.

I have seen at another forum that FJI1 was due in at MEL at 1530 today, as to the reason for it i don't know.

Aircraft was flying in a southerly direction and was unusally lower than normal.

If it was the FJII flight then it was obviously on descent to canberra.

But if it was on descent to canberra then why so far north east?

I didn't see it till i walked outside. And only saw the backend of the aircraft and yep certainly was a 744 or 743.


ok update to this, i found this info on 16right.com.....VH-OEJ QF0000 14/05/2009 14:10 Qantas B747-438(ER) ** Route Unknown **
if you roughly add the time to taxi and takeoff, then fly to nowra it could roughly put this aircraft overhead nowra at the time mentioned.


Cheers

Adam

From the weather request it looks like the Air Pacific SQ001 flight was going to Melbourne (unles YMML was an alternate).

ACARS mode: S Aircraft reg: .DQ-FJK
Message label: 88 Block id: 7 Msg. no: M19A
Flight id: SQ0001
Message content:-
3K03 WXRQ FJ0001/13 NFFN/YMML .DQ-FJK 1894 14052009 0457
/ACT YSSY/ /
/TAF / /
/ATS / /
-------------------------------------[14/05/2009 14:57]

There was nothing worthwhile in the ACARS log for QF0000.

Correction it didn't land at Canberra, the altitude on Webtrak said 3,048m obviously that was incorrect.

DQ-FJK B744 NAN-MEL FJI1 (damaged and flew at 10000ft unpressurised)

From an email I got, so there is your answer for both questions.

So i take its in MEL to visit JH for repairs?

And what caused the damage? does anyone know?

still i have to ask the question why come so far east and south of wollongong off track when being unpressuriesd.

Why not travel the usual route, or is it to do with lower safe alt's?

Cheers

Adam

Aircraft sustained damage thanks to a cargo truck:

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=121282

I guess you're wrong on both counts there. Steve Jones has the best set of eyes in Canberra that I know of...he'd know of any movements there.

Webtrak didn't lie either!

So thats what was going overhead as i was on my way into target country nowra for an hour or two..I had the same question, but already answered...

Kieran

how could you spend that much time in there, there's not that much to look at?

Cheers

Adam

A short work shift?:D

Yeah just a short visit in there just to introduce myself in my new role after being at Shellharbour in the morning...Was a lovely drive down the coast!!!

Well then the Webtrak altitude of 3,048m was correct as that is approx 10,000'. Very interesting.

Nick, I have replayed some of my own flights around the Sydney area and always found the WebTrak altitude to correspond closely with the actual altimeter in the aircraft.

The return flight maybe ....

DQ-FJK SQI101 15/05/2009 21:45 Air Pacific B747-412

Marty - there is no reason to quote the whole post directly above yours. Please use the reply button rather than the quote one -Mod


Yes departed MEL @ 21:14.