JQ may have broken second 787 in Cairns last week

[markis10]

Take it with a grain of salt re the source, interesting

@StevePurvinas

Rumour that a Jetstar 787 Dreamliner in Cairns has endured major cracks In windows and wings after a heavy landing. More to come...

 

[TomVexille]

Take it with a grain of salt re the source, interesting

@StevePurvinas

If true, that would be one heavy landing.

 

[lovestotravel]

Plus smoke from a JAL 787 today too

 

[madrooster]

Rego VH-VKD? Was only delivered a few days ago.

 

[jb747]

VH-VKD

 

[casanovawa]

Oh Gawddd, can this lot do anything right???

 

[Ansett]

Thinking perhaps just a rumor cant find anything on the web about it!

 

[maninblack]

It would be on the ground at Cairns then. According to the Flightaware it hasn't moved since the 14th.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Out on a limb here, but is a "hard landing" a piloting error? or some malfunction with the aircraft itself?

 

[Mal]

So has good old Steve backed up his claims with evidence?

 

[maninblack]

I think the Cairns Post might still employ a reporter or two. Could be a breaking story for them!

 

[Simo]

Might be really broken...

 

[Fruitcake]

Thinking perhaps just a rumor cant find anything on the web about it!

It's on pprune, so it's as good as gospel:
Dreamliner rattled landing at Cairns - PPRuNe Forums

 

[mannej]

It's on pprune, so it's as good as gospel:
Dreamliner rattled landing at Cairns - PPRuNe Forums

Are you serious? Pprune is hardly a credible source...

 

[pauly7]

It's on pprune, so it's as good as gospel:
Dreamliner rattled landing at Cairns - PPRuNe Forums

Hahhahaha funny!

(You are being sarcastic right?!?)

 

[Austman]

Well, if the time-stamps are right, VH-VKD (the 3rd 787) arrived in CNS on 14th Jan at 17:41 (Flight Aware seems to give local times). Steve Purvinas tweeted on 14th Jan at 14:35 (AESST?).

VH-VKB (the 2nd 787) was in CNS 31st Dec to 13th Jan but is now flying SYD-DPS. So if it's VH-VKB that is the aircraft in question, it's in service now.

 

[Fruitcake]

Hahhahaha funny!

(You are being sarcastic right?!?)

Definitely sarcasm .

 

[samh004]

It would have had to be one heck of a hard landing, and I'd have thought they were designed with the occasional hard landing in mind.

 

[Fruitcake]

[video=youtube;lrE65Z2lT4c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrE65Z2lT4c[/video]

 

[RooFlyer]

[video=youtube;lrE65Z2lT4c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrE65Z2lT4c[/video]

Holy smokes! When was that? Was it an actual, not test landing ("ar, yep, that one was too hard")? Caught in a wind shear?