Qantas flight QF2 from Bangkok-Sydney suffers engine drama

[Ryan N]

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/qantas-flight-suffers-engine-drama/story-e6frfq80-1226168139964

[Greg M]

Skynews was obviously in a big rush to publish this story with the headline...

Qantas plance forced to return,

the story was Updated: 08:48, Monday October 17, 2011, but not the spelling of plane, for consistency they included vision of an airbus 380

http://www.skynews.com.au/businessnews/article.aspx?id=674336&vId=2780922

[Dave Dale]

Mmm, I thought QF52 started in Singapore? I hope so, since I am this flight tonight! Gees...

[Rowan McKeever]

It was QF2 that had the engine issue, not QF52.

[Zac M]

Aircraft was VH-OJS according to 'avherald.com'.

[Ryan N]

That's what I thought given there is a thread about QF52 in this forum.

[Dave Dale]

My remarks were such because the initial report on sky news was about Q52. I was 'having a go' at the sloppy media. However, thank you to those who corrected my apparent error.

Dave

[James S.]

Have all of the QF 747s with RB211's had the modifications to the HPC blades completed?

[Fred C]

No.:o

[Tristan Gulyas]

Sky News obviously could not have been in THAT much of a hurry given how many hours it took them to publish the story. I first heard about this from a passenger on Facebook just past 3AM this morning. Contained failure to number 3 engine some ten minutes after takeoff.

Here's a pic he posted of the flight path (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150422777372853&set=a.137045832852.133019.566652852&type=1&theater).