Note that this was a post from my blog at an older location: Posted August 2 2008
Yes, another post about Qantas! I’m sure you’re all tired of my ramblings about Qantas but it’s not my fault Qantas has all these incidents! Okay, now I’m sure you’ve all heard about Qantas Flight 30 and how the aircraft had suffered a rapid decompression. Well, it is currently being investigated and the current theory is that an oxygen bottle exploded. I disagree with that theory right now. I (personally) think that that piece of fuselage may have a manufacturing defect (such as an impurity in the metal) although I may be completely wrong here.
Qantas has had 2 more incidents this week, all of them were Boeing aircraft (although note that at this moment, only 14 of it’s fleet of currently 139 operating aircraft, that’s excluding Jetstar Airways and QantasLink’s fleet, are Airbus). On Monday, 28th of July 2008, Qantas Flight 692, a Boeing 737-800, was en-route from Adelaide to Melbourne I believe when it was forced to turn back to Adelaide because it’s landing gear doors on the undercarriage failed to close. Today, Saturday August the 2nd, Qantas Flight 19, a Boeing 767-300ER, en-route from Sydney to Manila had to turn back to make a landing back in Sydney due to a mechanical fault. When the aircraft took off from Sydney, Air Traffic Controllers spotted what they believed to be “smoke” trailing from the left wing of the 767. The “smoke” was actually the hydraulic fluid from line 1 (there are 3 lines in total) leaking from the aircraft. Without line 1, the aircraft’s main landing gear would deploy slower than usual and some surfaces on the wing such as the flaps and spoilers would not function as they would normally. The cause of the leak is still unknown.
What’s worse is that I’ve recently discovered that Qantas is pretty much everywhere in Australia! They sponsored World Youth Day 2008, they sponsor a lot of sporting teams, they are running advertisements on television, and with the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing to be broadcast soon, I’ll be seeing Qantas ads even more with them sponsoring the broadcast! GAAAAHHHH!!! Qantas is everywhere to haunt me! Why can’t there be more Emirates ads? Or more Singapore Airlines ads? Heh, at least I get to laugh at some of my friends as they go on an excursion to Hong Kong flying QANTAS soon!
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