Qantas flight QF2 from Bangkok-Sydney suffers engine drama

Ryan N · #1 17th October 2011, 10:16 AM

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/q...-1226168139964

Greg M · #2 17th October 2011, 10:50 AM

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/businessne...36&vId=2780922

Dave Dale · #3 17th October 2011, 10:52 AM

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

Rowan McKeever · #4 17th October 2011, 11:38 AM

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

Zac M · #5 17th October 2011, 12:04 PM

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

Ryan N · #6 17th October 2011, 12:34 PM

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

Dave Dale · #7 17th October 2011, 01:11 PM

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. · #8 17th October 2011, 06:15 PM

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

Fred C · #9 17th October 2011, 08:02 PM

No.

Tristan Gulyas · #10 17th October 2011, 08:15 PM

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.