QF B738 VH-VZZ incident 13 March 2017

[Melburnian1]

ATSB has released a report into the above incident where two QF flight attendants were injured. It's on the 'Canberra Times' and other websites.

The report summary (and the online media report) states that there were 177 passengers on board.

However the seat guru website informs me that seating configuration for a QF B738 totals either 168 or 174.

Can someone explain this discrepancy?

 

[mannej]

Infants

 

[milehighclub]

Lap held infants most likely.

On a full flight, the maximum passenger load can be increased by up 5% of the total, provided they are infants/children.

 

[moa999]

seating configuration for a QF B738 totals either 168 or 174.

All 12/162 nowadays including the ZK fleet which is gradually coming back to VH registrations

 

[timster]

Investigation: AO-2017-030 - Flight path management occurrence involving Boeing 737, VH-VZZ, near Canberra Airport, ACT, on 13 March 2017

 

[Strategic Aviation]

'She felt the cabin floor drop': Qantas crew injured after autopilot cut out - Canberra Times

 

[AviatorInsight]

Luckily, these occurrences are few and far between but it has happened at both airlines. Our training has now been changed as a result, although our planes still allow the mode of CWS unlike QF (which I find interesting). I like using CWS especially when I’m flying a circuit for the final approach.

 

[JohnK]

My seq # today ~1 hour before departure was 176. There were a number of infants on board.