Aerospace Insight: Qantas QF32 flight from the cockpit
by Volker Weber
On 4 November Qantas flight QF32, an Airbus A380 outbound from Singapore, ran into serious problems when a turbine on its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine suffered an uncontained failure. We caught up with one of the five pilots onboard, who describes how the crew professionally dealt with the incident, the sequence of events, and how the most dangerous period was after they had landed.
Thanks, Hajo.
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Alle Achtung, die 433 Passagiere an Bord verdanken der Crew ihr Leben. Ich hatte nicht gewusst, dass die Situation dermassen brenzlig war. An Bord eines Billigfliegers waere die Geschichte vermutlich nicht ganz so glimpflich ausgegangen. Ein packender Report.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
It turns out this was a quite serious accident that could end into a major disaster. The experience and professional training of the crew concurred to manage the emergency to it's good outcome.
I understand know better why the company did not hesitate in grounding all A 380s till the end of the investigation.
Qantas really are a very good airline.
I love, just love euphemisms
"uncontained failure"
we'll just say "it blowed up, real good".
I likewise, didn't realize how serious it actually was.
Euphemisms? How would you call the following?
Q: "Do you think a standard crew of two would have been able to cope?"
A: "That’s a very interesting question."
I read "burned to ashes".
Or this?
"We tried to recreate it in the sim[ulator] and we can’t!"
As Fefe already said on Nov 19th: They survived, because by sheer good fortune there were two additional pilots onboard.
