more QF drama..

[Montague S]

when it rains...it certainly poors!

BREAKING NEWS: A QANTAS flight bound for Melbourne made an emergency landing tonight after a door reportedly opened mid-flight.

The flight, believed to be QF692, took off from Adelaide at 6.08pm but turned around and landed safely 37 minutes later.

There was confusion over what caused the emergency.

Passengers said a door opened mid-flight, causing "chaos" in the cabin.

But airline sources said the doors covering the wheel bay did not close properly after take-off.

The aircraft turned around near Murray Bridge, about 60km from Adelaide, and landed safely at 6.45pm.

A Boeing 737-800 usually flies the Adelaide to Melbourne leg.

The aircraft remained at Adelaide Airport while passengers were transferred to another Melbourne flight.

A Qantas spokesperson refused to comment beyond confirming an incident had occurred on the flight.

The drama comes just three days after a mid-air emergency aboard a Qantas 747 on Friday.

A ruptured oxygen bottle is believed to have ripped a 3m hole in the side of QF30 from Hong Kong to Melbourne, forcing it to make an emergency landing in Manila.

It was revealed yesterday a piece of metal from the bottle sliced into the cabin of the jet, just missing passengers.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...67-661,00.html

[Lachlan H]

Just saw that on google news.....thought it was the QF30 incident, but opened it and it was diff.

So was it a 763 as the pic states or a 738 as the article says??

[Montague S]

Originally Posted by Lachlan H

So was it a 763 as the pic states or a 738 as the article says??

read the article very closely..it says usually operates so I'd assume that the offending aircraft is the one in the photo.

if its the undercarriage doors as suggested then it has to be a 767...

[Lachlan H]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...tion=australia

Mechanical failure forces Qantas flight back to Adelaide

Posted 2 hours 2 minutes ago
Updated 1 hour 49 minutes ago
More concerns for Qantas.

Passengers on board a Melbourne-bound Qantas flight says the aircraft had to return to Adelaide Airport tonight because of a mechanical problem.

Passenger Rocco Russo says he heard a rattling noise about 10 minutes after take-off.

He says the pilot told passengers there was a problem with a door closing above the plane's wheel.

"He then continued to fly and said that he was going to contact the engineers and then a few minutes after that came back on and said the engineers had gotten back to him and the advice was to return to Adelaide," he said.

Qantas is yet to comment.

[Andrew M]

Yep it's time to play "beat up Qantas"

This "drama" was nothing at all to be concerned about

Expect no less from the media

[Stuart Trevena]

Hi All,

It was a 763, as Adelaide normally has only 734's & 738's of Qantas overnighting.

The 767 is in Gate 19 I think at the moment.

Stuart

[Rhys Xanthis]

I hope this doesnt get blown out of proportion, but i think we all know it will....wow a landing gear door didnt shut, watch the media wheel out the circus...

[Sarah C]

Originally Posted by Rhys Xanthis

I hope this doesnt get blown out of proportion, but i think we all know it will....wow a landing gear door didnt shut, watch the media wheel out the circus...

And there was a big media coverage this morning. Some of the interviewed passengers were laughable to be honest. A landing gear not shutting doesn't mean the plane is going down - the captain made a decision to return, standard procedure.

[David C]

Originally Posted by Stuart Trevena

Hi All,

It was a 763, as Adelaide normally has only 734's & 738's of Qantas overnighting.



Stuart

In true Ch 7 tradition , they are showing the aircraft as 737 VH-TJR "Cockateil " .. So what is the true identity ??

Dave C

[Philip Argy]

If newspaper reports are accurate (which I know is rare) I think the captain could have chosen his words better. We know what a landing gear door is but telling pax that "a door is open above the wheels" doesn't convey the innocuous nature of the problem to lay pax and sounds like it did the opposite for some, no matter how silly we think the pax were. Words like "wheel cover" or something come to mind as better terms to convey that it's no big deal.

I think a case can be made for educating crew on terminology to use with lay passengers to convey what is going on in a way that doesn't alarm them or leave ambiguous the seriousness of the issue. Especailly when media interview pax and report every word that is said.