QF A380 blows tyres on landing at YSSY

[Danny Rizk]

Media is currently asking for any footage of the heavy landing....
Good luck!

[Michael Cleary]

And just going back to Nigel's suggestion regarding the media trawling the web - theaustralian.com au has a statement in their story:

There is speculation on aviation internet message boards that brakes on the aircraft locked up, causing the tyres to burst.

Words to that effect have been seen in posts in this Thread.


I'm with Nigel - I'll wait for the facts to emerge from those whose job it is to publish them.

[Andrew M]

Originally Posted by Nigel C

For example, Greg's post had a quote from www.news.com.au...


Which looks quite similar to this from the lead post in this thread...


Coincidence?

I posted this "coincidence" on here last night when I saw it on various news.com.au websites and my post was deleted...

Interesting.....

[David Knudsen]

Andrew M, I have looked through all our moderation logs since this thread began and can assure you we haven't deleted or edited anything in this thread. Your account shows that your last post before 12:11 PM Today was 27th March 2010, 11:55 AM.


Perhaps you are mistaken?

[Kurt A]

Strangely, I can confirm the same, nothing untoward here

[Philip Argy]

One possible explanation, AndrewM: you previewed your post and then inadvertently browsed to another location without submitting the reply - I'm sure many of us have done that and later wondered where our post went!

[Andrew M]

David and Kurt - Thanks for checking , no idea what I did then!

I even did very minimal quoting

[Darryl Schlodder]

Laurent Sanhard
the only two scenarios I can think of , is 1: the nose wheel was'nt line up properply on landing (happened at LHR with a QFA380 a while back), or the front wheels locked up on landing, front brake probs

Considering that there are no brakes on the nose wheels of the A380. And I got that information direct from a A380 engineer.

VH-OQC was back in service late today, QF31 I think!

[Grahame Hutchison]

Confirmation it's back in the air ...

ACARS mode: 1 Aircraft reg: VH-OQC [Airbus A380]
Message label: ** Block id: @ Msg no: 6ece
Flight id: QF0031 [SYD-SIN-LHR] [Qantas]
Message content:-
SBS-1 Callsign: QFA31
----------------------------------------------------------[ 01/04/2010 09:21 ]-

[Darryl Schlodder]

Thanks Grahame