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Old 13th July 2010, 09:41 PM
Jason H Jason H is offline
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Default QF32 return to LHR 11/07

One of my friends was on QF32 on Sunday out of London, VH-OQB, which I believe had a decompression incident and returned to London. I haven't spoken to him yet and only heard about this through another friend.

That is the extent of what I have heard, does anyone have any info on this?

Update:

Spoke to the guy and he gave me a link with this info:
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A Qantas Airbus A380-800, registration VH-OQB performing flight QF-32 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Singapore (Singapore) with 451 passengers and 26 crew, was enroute at FL330 about 40nm southwest of Katowice (Poland) just inside Polish Airspace about 90 minutes into the flight, when the crew decided to turn around and return to London Heathrow. The airplane climbed to FL340 and was seen dumping fuel overhead Prague (Czech Republic). The airplane landed safely on London Heathrow's runway 27R about 110 minutes later.

Qantas said, that the flight attendants heard some unusual noises from the cargo hold. As a precaution the flight crew decided to return to Heathrow. Maintenance found no mechanical or structural issues with the aircraft that would affect its performance. Due to crew duty time limitations the airplane had to be overnighted in London, the flight is now estimated to depart the following day (Jul 12th) with a delay of 21 hours.
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