Turbulence Forecast Blog » safety http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/blog Reporting on Turbulence Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:42:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Giant hole in Qantas 747 http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/blog/2008/07/26/giant-hole-in-qantas-747/ http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/blog/2008/07/26/giant-hole-in-qantas-747/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:01:52 +0000 tb_neg http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/blog/?p=131 A rather scary incident aboard a Qantas flight resulted in shaken people, but no loss of life as a giant hole appeared in a Qantas 747. The cause of the incident is still unknown. Flight QF30 from Hong Kong to Melbourne diverted to Singapore after the incident.

Somewhat disturbing, a report of oxygen mask failure.

Times Online Article.
Sun Article.
BBC Article.
Video of inside.
Video 2.

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]]> http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/blog/2008/07/26/giant-hole-in-qantas-747/feed/ From bad to worse, safety inspections may span into June http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/blog/2008/04/10/from-bad-to-worse-safety-inspections-may-span-into-june/ http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/blog/2008/04/10/from-bad-to-worse-safety-inspections-may-span-into-june/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:32:59 +0000 tb_neg http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/blog/?p=118 It’s good to know the FAA has such a mastery of the situation, as given by this choice quote:

Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the FAA, said it could not rule out further groundings. “We don’t know,” she said. “We find what we find.”

9 MD-80 Aircraft failed inspections, which made American ground 300 planes. American expects 900 cancellations on Thursday.

IHT Article

CrankyFlier has some insight into the situation over at his blog in this post and this post.

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