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Litespeed Well-known member

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And naturally the turnback was the best Qantas option.

Screw the passengers and make it convenient for the small engineer team, that could have been flown in on the next flight.

 

Very much the Joyce way of doing things.

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old man emu
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I reckon that if I was flying a twin-engined plane and hear a loud <bang> from out on the wing, I'd initially scream "mayday". Everyone is going on about the problem being an engine failure, whi

Garfly
Garfly

But operating single-engine mid-ocean ain't no walk in the park. Surely, there were no options but an immediate MAYDAY/Datalink SOS in this case. It would have triggered responses from the s

turboplanner
turboplanner

Richard knew what he was doing.

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Bruce Tuncks

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I once read that quantas etc found it cheaper to get servicing done in singapore where a licensed person could have ten labourers. In Australia it is only 3. This I find hard to believe, surely CASA etc are not that bad...  does anybody know?

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 Self regulation Bruce.  A formula for failure..You're standing in it.   There's NO "You" in Qantas, either. Nev

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