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Anybody heard about a Quantas bird having depressurization problems and losing a big chunk of frame while on it's way to Australia?

I heard on the news this morning that they were looking at a possible mishap with an oxygen bottle.

The crew oxygen cylinders are stored just forward of where the damage was.

Apparently according to reports it isn,t Human Error that caused the Rupture, you can see the whole thing here !

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 395076.ece

Location of the crew oxygen system, if anyone is interested:

Working for the company i know what happened.

But since the topic is "Quantas" not "QANTAS"
I choose not to partake

Sorry, my mistake

Just by the way the name comes from the airline's origional name when it started at Winton in Queensland (Australia) in October 1920.

It was named "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services".

That's why there is no - U - in it.

If anyone is interested have a look at this:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas

It is the second oldest International airline after KLM.

An oxygen bottle is apparently the reason, it exploded or came loose from it's fitting and the cap came off.

John

Speaking to a CX Engineer - dont ask how he knows

Fragments of the bottle have been found in the cabin and also the bubble.
So a pretty serious Exploisve Decompression after the intial blast of the Oxygen bottles.

Some hydrolic and computerws were damdaged, Pilot landed with no Weather Radar, Anti Skid braking and limited PFD display

These bottles are after markert products and not made by Boeing, hence no grounding on any B744's
The inital report will be out in 20 days So instead of media beat up stories and gutter journalism,
We can get the fatcs

> It is the second oldest International airline after KLM.

By the way, our very own Finnair (here in Finland) was started in 1923, so
it's also a member of the "pioneers club", I guess

Petri

Qantas has had an interesting history but despite the small Australian market they have had some incedible luck to survive and prosper. By the 70's they were a soley international airline and at one stage they were an all 747 airline until they bought some 767s. In the 80's they were merged with 'Australian Airlines' (formerly TAA) who were an also govt owned domestic carrier. This was in preparation for the sell off of both airlines in their merged identity. Before this merger many Australians had never flown Qantas, because they didn't fly domestic routes.

This merger was fortunate for Qantas because it helped them survive the downturn in international travel during the Asian financial crisis, 911, and SARS. They were able to use the domestic side of the business to great effect. Also quite fortunate for them was the collapse of Ansett at the time of 911. This enabled Qantas to pick up 80% of the domestic market right when the international market collapsed. Virgin Blue also went from a small startup to a real player due to Ansetts failure.

They will survive the current media beatup and emerge stronger than ever, particularly with the success of Jetstar.

Mike
1905