Emergency Qantas landing?

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Sounds awful - one of my biggest fears when flying :(

I hope Exmouth hospital can cope with 15 patients. They probably only have 4 beds in the Emergency Department, and I doubt there are more than 2 ambulances plus a couple of RFDS planes.
I agree about your concerns re Exmouth hospital. Probabaly only one poor GP on call as well. Unless, the injuries are life thraetening, I suspect they will be taken to Perth ASAP....sounds like clear air turbulence, and I guess confirms the recommendation to always have your seat belt on.
 
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The runway is apparently in a military base. One assumes they have some supplies to treat any cuts or splint some broken bones etc.
 
This will almost certainly be clear air turbulance. And this is why you keep your seatbelt on at all times and dont wander around the cabin unnecessarily.

Hopefully all are okay.
 
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It appears that 767-300 VH-ZXC is heading to Learmonth as QF6122 (one of the aircraft that will rescue stranded pax)

YPLM = Learmonth (ICAO code)

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Subsequently, QF566 PER-SYD has a delayed departure of 23:15 (scheduled 15:15) due to the -ZXC flying to Learmonth.

Jetstream image from earlier today

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My thoughts are with everyone involved :-|
 
An update just posted on QF:

Update on QF72 Diversion to Learmonth
Sydney, 07 October 2008
Qantas is sending two aircraft to Learmonth from Perth to collect passengers and crew.
A B767 is due to arrive in Learmonth at 5.10pm local time and a B717 at 5.40pm. The aircraft are due to arrive back in Perth at 7.50pm and 8.35pm respectively.
Inquiries regarding passengers should be directed to Qantas on 1800 062 241 (in Australia).
Further information will be issued as soon as it is available.

Correction to media release (Q3829) issued at 5.10 pm
The A330-300 aircraft landed in Learmonth at 1.45pm (local time) and had been due to land in Perth at 2.10pm (local time).
 
Sounds awful - one of my biggest fears when flying :(

I hope Exmouth hospital can cope with 15 patients. They probably only have 4 beds in the Emergency Department, and I doubt there are more than 2 ambulances plus a couple of RFDS planes.

The ambulance service that may only get a couple of jobs a week is staffed by vollies.. they would have had trouble dealing with it
 
Here is a listing of "Breaking News" articles on the Courier-Mail website this afternoon:

4:19pm Fifty injured in mid-air incident
4:19pm Forty injured in mid-air accident
4:17pm Forty hurt in mid-air accident
Good to see NoNews knows the News.

Qantas had the following for QF32 this afternoon (in the schedules):
QF 72
Operated by:
Qantas Airways
Depart: Singapore 7 Oct at 09:05
Arrive: Perth 7 Oct at 15:50
Stopover: Learmonth for 1:00 hours
Total Time: 6:45 hours
Aircraft: Airbus 330-300

Kinda interesting to have the "stopover" listed in the schedule as almost a planned stop! At the same time, Arrivals info for Perth on the Qantas site was just showing it as delayed.

Can't wait for the media beatup circus to start. The small smatterings came out this afternoon. By tomorrow morning, the clowns will be out and the circus will be in full swing.
 
If it was due to turbulance, I'm really keen to know whether pax and crew were seated for turbulance already with seatbelt sign on. Or if whatever happened was just out of the blue.

If pax and crew were seated with seatbelt sign on, I don't understand how so many people got injured.

*waits for more info before more speculation!* :P
 
RFDS have quite a few aircraft responding as well.
 
Passenger Nigel Court (on Ch 7 News) said the plane dropped 8,000 feet in 10 seconds! Hmmm...methinks Nigel is incorrect, 2.4km in 10 seconds, I have never heard of anything like that.

And the best part of his version of events - his wife hit the roof "but those with seatbelts on were fine".
 
Passenger Nigel Court (on Ch 7 News) said the plane dropped 8,000 feet in 10 seconds! Hmmm...methinks Nigel is incorrect, 2.4km in 10 seconds, I have never heard of anything like that.

And the best part of his version of events - his wife hit the roof "but those with seatbelts on were fine".

40 out of ~300. Sounds about the right percentage to me of people either up from their seat or those that dont fasten it during cruise.
 
Passenger Nigel Court (on Ch 7 News) said the plane dropped 8,000 feet in 10 seconds! Hmmm...methinks Nigel is incorrect, 2.4km in 10 seconds, I have never heard of anything like that.

And the best part of his version of events - his wife hit the roof "but those with seatbelts on were fine".
An instantaneous fall at 48,000 fpm equates to 480 kts vertically. :shock:

Not going to happen :!:
 
An instantaneous fall at 48,000 fpm equates to 480 kts vertically. :shock:

Not going to happen :!:
Perhaps you need to add that its not going to happen and land the aircraft horizontally on the hard black stuff.
 
New Qantas Saftey Poll

AAP
7 October 2008
MORE than 60 per cent of Australians believe the safety standards of Qantas have slipped, according to a poll released on the same day as another incident involving the national carrier.
Thirty-six people were hurt, 20 seriously, when a Singapore to Perth international Qantas flight suddenly lost altitude over Western Australia today throwing passengers from their seats.
UMR Omnibus, one of Australia's leading research and polling companies, said it surveyed 1000 people two weeks ago on people's attitudes towards the national carrier.
The results, published on the UMR website, show 63 per cent of Australians believe the airline's safety standards have become worse over the last few years.
This compared with a figure of 52 per cent when a similar poll was conducted in early August.
Women, older Australians, low-income earners and Queenslanders were particularly concerned about Qantas's safety, the study found.
But two in three Australians still believed Qantas was a safe airline to fly with.
The August poll was carried out after two incidents involving Qantas in the previous month.
An exploding oxygen bottle punched a huge hole in the side of a Qantas Boeing 747-400, forcing an emergency landing in the Philippines, while a Qantas Boeing 737-800 returned to Adelaide after a landing gear door failed to retract.
The September poll followed an incident in August involving a Manila-bound Boeing 767, which was turned back to Sydney after developing a hydraulic fluid leak.
UMR managing director John Udding, who was waiting at Perth airport at the time of the incident, had his Qantas flight cancelled because of the Airbus incident.
A UMR spokesman said Mr Udding would have liked to comment but was unavailable as he had been forced to take a late flight to Melbourne rather than his booked Sydney destination.
 
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