QF17 and SQ212 return to YSSY - 15NOV

[Adrian B]

Hi all,

Just listening to Sydney tower, and someone is dumping fuel out to sea. Anyone know more about this PROBABLE MINOR STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE THAT IS NOT WORTH REPORTING "(just for the journos that are probably watching?)

[Adrian B]

Sounds like a QF PAN call for QF 117 74X Just landed 16R. Another inbound QF flight had a warning light on take off from Melbourne, and has requested 16R.

[Scott Stewart]

might be QF17 returning after departing at 11:00am - Sydney Airport website showing as having landed as QF17D from Buenos Aries at 1:24pm ?

[Brian Noldt]

Just announced on 2GB and also in The Australian.

QF17, which departed Sydney International Airport at 11.11am (AEDT) today with 119 passengers on board, turned around about one hour into the flight to Buenos Aires, a Qantas spokeswoman said.

It's not yet clear what the issue is but the pilots are dumping fuel from the Boeing 747 as it heads towards Australia.

Qantas is unable to say what time the flight is due to land in Sydney.

Brian

[Benny Zheng]

Looks like VH-OEI from acars.

[Nigel C]

It was OEI and it landed around 1320.

It's amazing how the Qantas return gets mentioned, but nothing of the other international airline that performed an air return not that long before it....

[Adrian B]

Thanks Nigel, What time was the other return, I ddint hear that one. In prep of the 'completely uneventful' return of QF17, there was another a/c (not mentioning the carrier) that requested to stay on approach to 16R due to a warning light on departure from YMML.

[Andrew M]

119 passengers......

[Michael Mak]

Originally Posted by Nigel C

It's amazing how the Qantas return gets mentioned, but nothing of the other international airline that performed an air return not that long before it....

Which airline was it?

[Nigel C]

Originally Posted by Adrian B

Thanks Nigel, What time was the other return, I ddint hear that one.

It was sometime between 1130 and 1200 I think.