Qantas flight cancelled after wing damage | theage.com.au
Poor old Qantas... soon the newspapers will have a dedicated section for Qantas news.
Poor old Qantas... soon the newspapers will have a dedicated section for Qantas news.
One has to ask how they ended up in the situation :?:Qantas flight cancelled after wing damage | theage.com.au
Poor old Qantas... soon the newspapers will have a dedicated section for Qantas news.
Seems as though they do have a reporter assigned to QF-Qantas flight cancelled after wing damage | theage.com.au
Poor old Qantas... soon the newspapers will have a dedicated section for Qantas news.
Some pics here
http://www.theaussieaviator.net/showthread.php?t=23721
I can oly proffer
1) Something hit it, or
2) Failure of some sort when it was deployed.
If I had to guess, looks like a failure when the pilot extended it during taxi. There's no way it would have been like that at the gate and nobody noticed.
The pilot,along with others, are supposed to do a physical pre flight inspection. How this could not be noticed surprises me
Yes the do a walk around, but wont the pilots be firmly strapped into there seats when the last catering trucks etc pull away ? and thes are the sort of things that can damage aircraft.
Not very relevent in this case because knowing the little i do and seeing the photos posted it looks a lot like for some reason one of the actuators stuck firm and the other one just kept pushing. Which would be more or less a maintinance issue (But as stated, know nothing, just speculation)
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Having seen the damage to the DHL A300 that took a missile in the wing over Baghdad, I am amazed at how an aircraft can be controlled and land safely with such damage. This 743 damage is minor compared to the DHL A300!Wonder what effects that panel damage would have when it was inflight/landing
Given Qantas hope to get no more than 5 further weeks service out of these beasties the point may be moot.... efore the remaining 743s finally retire?
Given Qantas hope to get no more than 5 further weeks service out of these beasties the point may be moot.
One recently departed our shores, so just three to go now....
One recently departed our shores, so just three to go now....
I believe VH-EBX departed Australia for the last time on 22nd November. It departed around 7:30pm as QF6020 to HNL. It should now be sitting in the Arizona desert at Marana.Really, what one ? i did not notice. What was its destination, parts or sold as a flying aircraft for some other use, eg freight ?