Fire on board Jetstar flight

[Slats7]

Fire on board Jetstar flight | National Breaking News | News.com.au

A JETSTAR flight from Japan to the Gold Coast has made an emergency landing in Guam after fire broke out in the coughpit.

Qantas didn't get a mention in this article!

 

[Mal]

coughpit fire on Jetstar flight from Japan to Gold Coast

coughpit fire on Jetstar flight from Japan to Gold Coast | The Courier-Mail

All passengers and crew are safe and no one has been injured.

The A330-200 aircraft - flight JQ 20 - left Kansai International Airport just before 11pm (AEST) yesterday Australian time carrying 186 adult passengers, four infants and 13 crew including 9 cabin crew and 4 pilots

 

[Slats7]

Fire forces emergency Japan-Gold Coast Jetstar landing at Guam | Herald Sun

A JETSTAR plane forced to land after a mid-flight coughpit fire is the same model aircraft as the missing Air France plane.

Herald Sun have just updated their story to link it with the Air France plane.

I'm still waiting for QF to get a mention?

 

[Mal]

Beaten at the post

Yeah I'm surprised that more wasn't made of the plane being one of 'those' A330's, or that Qantas has had issues with some A330's in earlier times... Can't be too long until someone updates the article though with 'the facts'.

 

[Slats7]

Beaten at the post

Yeah I'm surprised that more wasn't made of the plane being one of 'those' A330's, or that Qantas has had issues with some A330's in earlier times... Can't be too long until someone updates the article though with 'the facts'.

Pretty much posted at the same time

You're right, it won't be too long...

 

[NM]

Yeah I'm surprised that more wasn't made of the plane being one of 'those' A330's, or that Qantas has had issues with some A330's in earlier times... Can't be too long until someone updates the article though with 'the facts'.

Probably because news.com.au are using a stock picture showing a Jetstar Boeing 717 (as they always seem to use for a story about Jetstar), showing how much they know about aircraft .

 

[hardya]

After the swine flu and Japanese PAX dissatisfaction with inferior JQi service, this will be about the final nail in the coffin for JQi @ KIX.

 

[Saab34]

186 adult passengers

Quite impressive compared to recent weeks. I wonder how Starclass is fairing:shock:

Yet Buchanan keeps prancing around complaining about successful they have been, and how Japan is holding up quite well...

SYD/MEL-NRT direct please.

 

[Evan]

Qantas gets a mention in the age article.

Any idea on schedule issues with say Fridays KIX-OOL flight, i assume it could be bad but if anybody who knows has any info please PM me, i have a friend who is coming to a wedding and cant be a late if you know what i mean

 

[docjames]

Glad all aboard are ok and a/c landed safely.

Sure would be some shock to wake in the middle of the night to find yourself landing in GUM (and not OOL!).

 

[FL360]

A330 - fly by wire and coughpit systems overheat (on fire) :!:

the crew must have a thrilling time up there... pondering what will happen
and what had happened....

someone spill coffee ??

 

[ColinP]

An amusing post on Pprune suggests that the first officer was warming a can of beans on a camp stove

Perhaps he had forgotten to order a pre-paid meal

 

[Slats7]

I'm laughing at some of the stupid comments on news.com.au:

I wonder how many more A330 incidents there has to be before they decide to pull the aircraft from the skies and fix ALL of the problems? How many more innocent people have to die before the curiosity of the Arrogant French Airbus Corporation is satisfied? Attention boys & girls of Airbus corporation - your A330 aircraft have several design problems - DOH!

Where does Jetstar get their maintanance done? Same place as Qantas? Thank god I never fly with them.. Virgin is much better value for money - and you earn frequent flyer points..

 

[FL360]

If news.com.au bother to trace IP addresses I am sure some of them
came from airline's PR department....

I'm laughing at some of the stupid comments on news.com.au:

I wonder how many more A330 incidents there has to be before they decide to pull the aircraft from the skies and fix ALL of the problems? How many more innocent people have to die before the curiosity of the Arrogant French Airbus Corporation is satisfied? Attention boys & girls of Airbus corporation - your A330 aircraft have several design problems - DOH!

Where does Jetstar get their maintanance done? Same place as Qantas? Thank god I never fly with them.. Virgin is much better value for money - and you earn frequent flyer points..

 

[Nigelinoz]

If news.com.au bother to trace IP addresses I am sure some of them
came from airline's PR department....

Funny how I have had the same thought about some of the posts here on AFF.

 

[NM]

I'm laughing at some of the stupid comments on news.com.au:

Seems news.com.au does not have a monopoly on such comments when it comes to aircraft

I wonder how many more A330 incidents there has to be before they decide to pull the aircraft from the skies and fix ALL of the problems? How many more innocent people have to die before the curiosity of the Arrogant French Airbus Corporation is satisfied? Attention boys & girls of Airbus corporation - your A330 aircraft have several design problems - DOH!

Have you done any research into recent reports of fire/smoke on aircraft? Have you looked at how many such incidents (smoke/fire in coughpit) in the last year have been on Airbus aircraft compared with Boeing, MD, Embraer, Canadair etc aircraft? A quick search at Aviation Herald reveals these recent accidents and incidents involving fire/smoke in aircraft coughpits:

American B763 over Atlantic on Jun 9th 2009, electrical fire in cabin - fan motor caught fire.
Tuifly B738 near Geneva on Jun 7th 2009, smoke in cabin
United Airlines B752 near Indianapolis on May 15th 2009, smoke in coughpit
British Airways B763 near Budapest on May 12th 2009, smoke in cabin
United Airlines B763 near Bangor on Apr 1st 2009, smoke in coughpit
United B772 at Heathrow on Feb 26th 2007, smoke from right electrical bus during taxi
American MD82 at San Diego on Mar 29th 2009, smoke in coughpit
Ryanair B738 near Gdansk on Mar 12th 2009, burning smell in coughpit
Cirrus E170 at Muenster on Feb 21st 2009, smoke in cabin and coughpit
Cimber AT72 at Karup on Feb 13th 2009, smoke in coughpit before departure
British Airways B772 at Abuja on Jan 24th 2009, smoke in coughpit
Southwest B733 near Jacksonville on Jan 24th 2009, smoke in coughpit
Piedmont DH8A near Wilkes-Barre on Dec 25th 2008, smoke in coughpit
Delta Airlines MD88 near Greenville on Dec 11th 2008, smoke in coughpit
Skywest E120 at Palm Springs on Dec 3rd 2008, smoke in coughpit
Chautauqua CRJ2 at Houston on Nov 24th 2008, smoke in coughpit and cabin
Delta Airlines B752 near Halifax on Oct 11th 2008, smoke in coughpit
American Eagle E135 near Alexandria on Sep 26th 2008, smoke in coughpit
Jetblue Airways A320 at Palm Beach on Sep 18th 2008, smoke in coughpit
Thomsonfly B763 at Cancun on Sep 4th 2008, smoke in cabin
Easyjet A319 at Copenhagen on Aug 23rd 2008, smoke in the coughpit
United Airlines B772 near Montreal on Aug 18th 2008, smoke in cabin and coughpit
Continental B73G near Santa Ana on Aug 7th 2008, smell of smoke in coughpit

Of course very few of these incidents and accidents received much media coverage in Australia.

I could not find another coughpit fire/smoke report for an Airbus A330 aircraft in the database. DOH! I fail to see how anyone can draw the conclusion that the A330 has inherent design problems based on the information so far available from the JQ incident and diversion to GUM.

Where does Jetstar get their maintanance done? Same place as Qantas? Thank god I never fly with them.. Virgin is much better value for money - and you earn frequent flyer points..

Virgin Blue flies 737NG and V-Australia flies 777 aircraft. Both these types have had more reports at Aviation Herald of smoke in the coughpit than the A330s flown by Jetstar and Qantas.

 

[harvyk]

I love nonews, it's the ultimate in bias reporting. I also love the fact that AA is listed in the list below 3 times, and yet the the first time it happens to JQ (lets just say QF, it's easier for the QF bashers to identify with) and it's a case of the sky is about to fall.

Also I love the comments from people who experience with air travel is that one lived under an airport flight path.

 

[oz_mark]

I wonder how many more A330 incidents there has to be before they decide to pull the aircraft from the skies and fix ALL of the problems? How many more innocent people have to die before the curiosity of the Arrogant French Airbus Corporation is satisfied? Attention boys & girls of Airbus corporation - your A330 aircraft have several design problems - DOH!

How many fatal accidents have there been involving an A330 that is in passenger service?

One.

Contemporary aircraft from both Airbus and Boeing are very safe, but they are also very complicated machines and of course things go wrong from time to time. If you want all problems in all aircraft fixed before they fly, then you will be close to grounding the entire worldwide fleet of aircraft.

 

[samh004]

Story also noted on Jetstar's site.

 

[harvyk]

The last paragraph of the Jetstar "information page" says it all

"Jetstar had four very experienced pilots on board, who handled this situation with great professionalism."

Basically they did what their training told them to do, they got the plane on the ground, everyone walked away unharmed.

Enough said...