Quantas decompression

[XabbaRus]

Interesting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7524733.stm

Would love to know why it happened. Any theories?

[Sailor Steve]

No idea; but there was a time when the report on something like this would have simply been "Aircraft missing - Investigation under way."

Aircraft design has come a long way since my youth.

[Platapus]

Aircraft design has come a long way since my youth.

Yeah, no spirit doped linen wings. :rotfl:

[nikimcbee]

Damn koalas!
http://www.artdavo.net/images/252.jpg

[antikristuseke]

Engineers are investigating what caused the hole - about 2.5m to 3m in diameter - which led to cabin pressure problems.

You don't say:lol:

[Sailor Steve]

Aircraft design has come a long way since my youth.

Yeah, no spirit doped linen wings. :rotfl:
Just spirited dopes laying whines.:p

[nikimcbee]

Engineers are investigating what caused the hole - about 2.5m to 3m in diameter - which led to cabin pressure problems.

You don't say:lol:

It was koalas!

[FIREWALL]

This isn't the first time for a 747.

Some years back a 747 flying near Hawaii lost a large fusealage section in the passenger compartment. one fatality.

A stewardess was sucked out iirc.

That had to be a horrible way to die.

Or even witness.

[nikimcbee]

This isn't the first time for a 747.

Some years back a 747 flying near Hawaii lost a large fusealage section in the passenger compartment. one fatality.

A stewardess was sucked out iirc.

That had to be a horrible way to die.

Or even witness.

I remember that! My aunt had been on that plane before it landed in Hawaii. If I remember correctly, it landed to refuel, the new passengers got on, then it fell apart. Scary stuff.

[UnderseaLcpl]

This incident seems to lead credence to a suspicion I have held for a long time; stuff breaks.

[Jimbuna]

This incident seems to lead credence to a suspicion I have held for a long time; stuff breaks.

But not when I'm aboard....please. :lol:

[rifleman13]

This isn't the first time for a 747.

Some years back a 747 flying near Hawaii lost a large fusealage section in the passenger compartment. one fatality.

A stewardess was sucked out iirc.

That had to be a horrible way to die.

Or even witness.
I remember that! My aunt had been on that plane before it landed in Hawaii. If I remember correctly, it landed to refuel, the new passengers got on, then it fell apart. Scary stuff.
To clarify these statements, it was an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-297. :know:

[Jimbuna]

This isn't the first time for a 747.

Some years back a 747 flying near Hawaii lost a large fusealage section in the passenger compartment. one fatality.

A stewardess was sucked out iirc.

That had to be a horrible way to die.

Or even witness.
I remember that! My aunt had been on that plane before it landed in Hawaii. If I remember correctly, it landed to refuel, the new passengers got on, then it fell apart. Scary stuff.
To clarify these statements, it was an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-297. :know:

Never mind Aloha!....It was nearly Goodbye!! :o

[sonar732]

This isn't the first time for a 747.

Some years back a 747 flying near Hawaii lost a large fusealage section in the passenger compartment. one fatality.

A stewardess was sucked out iirc.

That had to be a horrible way to die.

Or even witness.
I remember that! My aunt had been on that plane before it landed in Hawaii. If I remember correctly, it landed to refuel, the new passengers got on, then it fell apart. Scary stuff. To clarify these statements, it was an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-297. :know:

Some information...

http://www.aloha.net/~icarus/index.htm (http://www.aloha.net/%7Eicarus/index.htm)

http://www.aloha.net/%7Eicarus/243a.jpg

[baggygreen]

This morninggs paper speculated that it was an oxygen bottle exploding spontaneously. The QANTAS CEO also went to great lengths to state over and over that no major maintenance had ever been done on the bird outside Oz.

Thats all well and good, but all minor maintenance, such as engineering checks, HAVE been outsourced to cheaper markets. One would think that for the oxygen bottle to spontanneously explode, there would be a defect there. which would ordinarily be picked up through routine maintenance checks.

coincidence much?:shifty: :down: