Qantas Darwin incident?

[Ben Longden]

Tripped over a site while looking for some Heavy Aviation Metal.... and saw THIS post.

 

Ben

 

Qantas 767 from Darwin Near-Crash: Lands at 350 kph

 

From: Anonymous (sydney.indymedia.org.au ) Posted Mar. 19, 2008

 

I was travelling to Sydney on QF829 this morning from Darwin to Sydney. The take-off seemed odd with the plane levelling out at

 

what seemed way too soon. The flight was OK but coming in to land, the screen was left on showing the plane's speed. Everyone

 

was talking about how we were coming in too fast. The landing speed for the 767 is 200kph or less, depending on weight being

 

carried. The plane landed with a big bump, too close to the end of the runway. The speed shown on the screen was 350kph.

 

People took up the brace position as it bounced along the tarmac with the wings nearly hitting the ground. Everyone thought we

 

would crash. We were thrown forward in our seats as the plane hit the ground. The noise of the reversed engines was shocking.

 

The plane ended up at the end of the runway way too close to the ocean. The pilot did a violent U-turn to get back to the terminal.

 

He started to chat about the weather but his voice sounded panicked. There was definitely something wrong with the plane - either

 

before landing, or having been damaged during the landing- as QF411 to Melbourne was cancelled. The 767 has had several

 

problems including mechanical problems with the wing flaps. Wing flap support structures have fallen off in the past.

 

 

[motzartmerv]

:thumb_up:Haha.. I don't know weather i'd be inclined to believe anything from a site called qantassucks.com..

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

Or that the landing speed of a 767 is less than 200km/h. It is around 240km/h.

 

 

[Ultralights]

and the inflight entertainment screens are an accurate airspeed indicator i_dunno

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

When I flew with Virgin not long ago back from OOL they were surprisingly good. I would not, however, rely on them too much. They can give erratic readings when close to the ground or get 'stuck' on an airspeed.

 

 

[Ben Longden]

It'd be interesting to read the ATSB summary in a month or so if and when it comes up.

 

To be brutally honest, I think the words "disgruntled, employee, vengance, agenda" and a few others come to mind when it comes to the site in question...

 

Its just one of the myriad of, er, debatable things you can trip over when surfing the net.. i_dunno

 

Ben

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

Indeed, the 717 incident in Darwin was actually operated by National Jet Systems and not Qantas itself. Although operating a QF flight, technically it was not QF. They still copped all the media hype about it though. There will be an investigation into that one:

 

 

[Ben Longden]

Good stuff, Darren.

 

Ben