2 Engines Failures 1 week at Qantas

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Just saw the below and a QantasLink has turned around due to engine failure. Wanting to know is this a compounding effect of maintenance compromises or is their just more articles getting out on anything that goes wrong at Qantas?
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/q...k=5b0fdbe620408f2b2cd1c5579d25965d-1711842303
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/q...k=5b0fdbe620408f2b2cd1c5579d25965d-1711842303

 

[I love to travel]

I think it's the latter. That said 3 out of 8 flights since January have gone tech for me

 

[BAM1748]

I think any QF story can be turned into news especially the click bait type.

The news should be how many failures per x flights or hours. But that requires some research.

 

[p--and--t]

But that requires some research.

....too much effort for journos nowadays and we mustn't ever let any relevant facts get in the road of juicy clickbait

 

[KSC]

A contributor to the issues is most likely the aging fleet. Newer planes are slowly on the way as most here are aware.

 

[moa999]

A contributor to the issues is most likely the aging fleet. Newer planes are slowly on the way as most here are aware.

A fleet is always ageing. And today's fleet on age (heavily dependent on how you measure it as last 7yrs investment has mostly been on widebody international - 14 787s) is little different to years prior.

 

[CaptJCool]

And the 747s were 49 yo when they retired them so what Grand Ladies of Engineering were they

 

[justinbrett]

The age of the engines is not necessarily connected with the age of the fleet.

New engines fail too.

 

[jb747]

Just saw the below and a QantasLink has turned around due to engine failure. Wanting to know is this a compounding effect of maintenance compromises or is their just more articles getting out on anything that goes wrong at Qantas?

QantasLink. Not Qantas.

Having got that off my chest, a shutdown is not a failure. There are many reasons to shutdown an engine, but in 99% of cases it would actually keep running if you didn't shut it down. For a while anyway. I would be extremely surprised if there was any sort of maintenance compromise involved. The avenues don't really exist. But, the media never miss a chance for a few more clicks.

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New engines fail too.

And are probably more likely to do so.

 

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Post automatically merged: Apr 1, 2024

And are probably more likely to do so.

I’m interested to know why newer engines are more likely to fail?

 

[jb747]

I’m interested to know why newer engines are more likely to fail?

Discovery process. You're discovering how the maker hasn't put them together properly.

 

[KSC]

Discovery process. You're discovering how the maker hasn't put them together properly.

Oh wow that is an interesting and scary thought for me..

 

[moa999]

Ergo the off centre bore in in the stub pipe on A380 VH-OQA on QF32.

Many electronic or mechanical equipment has a similar failure pattern - with incidents early as a typically manufacturing fault is found, or late as parts wear out if no maintenance.