Qantas 767 diverts to Mt Isa

[Matt_L]

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...-1226256707470

Note '647'..

And the Real source:
http://avherald.com/h?article=44a081cb

Looks like Qantas handled it well dispatching a 73.. Other forums report pax well looked after in MA- apparently however the only one shop open ran out of food!

[Rowan McKeever]

Any word on when/where the aircraft will ferry out?

[Dave Parer]

Article in today's North West Star newspaper

http://www.northweststar.com.au/news...g/2437177.aspx

[Rowan McKeever]

Cheers Dave... from SYD website QF6111 is due to arrive at 1625L today, so presumably out of ISA at around 1245L (1345AEST)?

[Mick F]

Not the first time a 767 has been to Mount Isa, but definitely not a common occurence!

And it's nice to see that so far the reports haven't been sensationalised and all the passengers have been happy.

Mick

[Sarah C]

Credit to the passengers for not over dramatising it - the issue was really with the lack of stairs, Isa just can't afford to have a set of stairs for a 767 sitting by in case a once-in-a-year event happens.

At least the pax got an upgrade in terms of the IFE, with the 737 taking them back to BNE having the SKy Interior.

[Andrew Johnson]

must have taken hours to get off the 767 without stairs ?

How hard would it be to have some extendable stairs, even if they had to be pushed into place, rather than driven on the back of a truck ?

[Mick F]

Isa just can't afford to have a set of stairs for a 767 sitting by in case a once-in-a-year event happens

Yet they keep a set of B717 stairs there. When was the last time a B717 landed at Mount Isa?

[Sarah C]

Originally Posted by Mick F

Yet they keep a set of B717 stairs there. When was the last time a B717 landed at Mount Isa?

Didn't a 717 operate between ISA and DRW at one stage? No point getting rid of those stairs given the number of 717's operating in the north.

[Mick F]

I lived in Mount Isa between 2006 and 2011 and never saw a B717. But I do remember when the stairs were delivered around 2007.

Just as many B767's fly over Mount Isa as B717's do....