Did Qantas Just order additional 12 787s (or is it Old news)?

[Quickstatus]

the QF 72 incident was not aircraft type related

I reckon, anything that is between the nose and tail and the 2 wingtips and arrived with the aircraft from the manufacturer, are part of the aircraft.

 

[RichardMEL]

What about QF72 then?

A330. Iirc. Not new type at all.

 

[HS-TQE]

Sounds like a re-hash of old news either unintentionally (or was the author intentionally?) "passed off" as new orders.

 

[jpp42]

BTW: the QF 72 incident was not aircraft type related AFAIAA

Exactly, and for those who who like to blame the Airbus fly-by-wire as putting too much control in the hands of automation, it's worth noting a similar incident occurred on a B777 as well, which is not as well known - Malaysia Airlines Flight 124 on 1 August 2005, a Perth to Kuala Lumpur flight (so along the same air corridor as the QF68, QF72, and QF71 incidents also involving the ADIRU computers). The correlation that these problems happened only along this route led to some real questions about interference from various military radio transmitters near Learmonth air base, but nothing was ever proven or announced publicly about this.