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JQ81 DRW Birdstrike.
JQ81 DRWDPS made an emergency stop on the runway
at DRW this evening due to bird strike to the l/h engine. Taxied back to stand 5A and pax deplaned back to lounge where we are currently waiting. Unsure of rego but it is one of the new 320s with the large logo and new interior. Just informed that aircraft is going nowhere in a hurry so an interesting time awaits. No spare in DRW so a long wait looms. Will be interesting to see what JQ provide to pax in this situation........ Last edited by Ian Nicholls; 6th June 2009 at 09:47 PM. Reason: update. |
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My guess at least they will provide some food vouchers or something like that. They did that in Hobart when a flight attendant went sick and that particular flight got delayed about 4 hours while they waited for another flight attendant to come down from Melbourne.
But then again this is a different situation so they might do a bit more then that if the PAX are lucky |
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ACARS mode: B Aircraft reg: VH-VQB [ ]
Message label: SA Block id: 3 Msg no: S44A Flight id: JQ0081 [BNE-DRW-DPS] [Jetstar] Message content:- 0EV014802V ----------------------------------------------------------[ 06/06/2009 03:48 ]- |
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Jetstar handled the situation really rather well. Kept pax
in the departure lounge for about 55 minutes with everybody thinking we'd be boarding again - it was fairly obvious when we were de-planed within 3 minutes of arrving back to the gate that we were going nowhere. They had free water on the scene within 15 minutes and then announced a new departure time of 0830 today (Sunday). By the time they made that announcement Duty Free were ready to take back Duty Free goods to be collected again today, immigration were ready to stamp everybody back in, the bags were on the belt and the Airport Inn and Airport Resort were ready to check pax in for the night. I thought it was a quite exceptional effort from the whole JQ team up here. This morning it seems that the aircraft off the JQ62 arrival from SIN is going forward as JQ82 to BNE, and the aircraft off JQ74 from SGN will be operating the JQ81/82 Bali rotation. This means the DRW-SYD JQ74 is delayed until after 1600 this arvo.... By the way Tim the aircraft involved was not VQB. This operated the BNE-DRW sector but then went forward as either JQ73 to SGN or JQ61 to SIN. Last edited by Ian Nicholls; 7th June 2009 at 06:31 AM. Reason: added info |
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JQ81 eventually operated by VH-VQB, this was the
first flight I've ever been on where the pax burst into applause on take off..... The damaged aircraft is whichever one operated QF61 MEL-DRW on 6/6. On top of being generally excellent in handling things in Darwin last night JQ also provided free meals and soft drink on the flight today. I really am absolutely impressed by the way they handled everything. |
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Good to hear they've got their act together up there in DRW when it comes to disruptions, seeing as there's a lot of flying in and out of there nowadays. Hopefully we can see this kind of effective disruption handling applied to all our other ports. Jetstar actually has a well-structured delay/disruption policy now to avoid the bad press we've seen in the early days.
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So what was the the rego of the delayed aircraft.
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If QF61 should have been JQ61 then take your pick .....
ACARS mode: 1 Aircraft reg: VH-VQU [Airbus A320] Message label: ** Block id: @ Msg no: 1df7 Flight id: JQ0061 [MEL-DRW-SIN] [Jetstar] Message content:- SBS-1 position report N-34.43953E140.58437 FL35025 ft./11491 m. ----------------------------------------------------------[ 06/06/2009 10:34 ]- ACARS mode: M Aircraft reg: VH-VQA [Airbus A320] Message label: 2L Block id: 7 Msg no: M08A Flight id: JQ0061 [MEL-DRW-SIN] [Jetstar] Message content:- DAT 06JUN09 UTC 0324 REG VHVQA FLT JST61 GWT 0 ZFW 595 FOB 150 CAP 104794 FO 122511 LOG 28513 LDR 0 DRT 0315 ----------------------------------------------------------[ 06/06/2009 05:25 ]-
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As damaged a/c was in large logo livery with new
interior must've been VH-VQA. |
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On the 6th the following occured...
JQ57/58 CNS-DRW-SIN-DRW-CNS was -JQE JQ61/62 MEL-DRW-SIN-DRW-MEL was -VQX -VQB ops JQ73 SYD-DRW-SGN, then JQ74 only as far as DRW, before it ops the delayed JQ81/82 to DPS and back. -VQA was the birdstrike victim. It departed DRW on ferry to MEL on the 8th as JQ7981. |
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