More scary moments... Qantas, what is wrong?

Multiple Qantas airplanes returning due to engine problems in the same year... Sounds weird. Is it maintenance fault or simply planes becoming too old?


Sep 1, 2010… A Qantas B747 carrying 212 passengers returned to San Francisco yesterday after a mid-air engine failure punched a hole through the external cowling, or casing, of one engine. The plane made an emergency landing at San Francisco about 45 minutes after takeoff.

4 Nov 2010… Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380 "Nancy-Bird Walton" VH-OQA, fitted with four Trent 972 engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce suffered a serious failure of its left inboard engine while taking off from Singapore Changi Airport.

5 Nov 2010… Qantas aircraft made a priority landing at Heathrow Airport in London on November 5 after problems with its hydraulic fuel system.

6 Nov 2010 ... In another incident in as many days, a Qantas 747 returns to Singapore after suffering problems with one its engines. ...

12 Nov 2010 ... QANTAS has been involved in yet another mid-air mishap, with passengers on their way to Melbourne from Perth forced to return after engine problems. The flight had to return to Perth Domestic Airport after the crew detected a vibration in the left-hand engine of the Boeing 767.

16 Nov 2010… A QANTAS plane en route to Argentina has been forced to return to Sydney after smoke started coming from an instrument panel in the cockpit, in the the latest in a string of incidents for the airline.

Scary moments... A380 Quantas Singapore to Sydney

Dia 4 de novembro, 2010, passageiros do voo Quantas Singapore to Sydney passaram por alguns "scary moments". Logo apos a decolagem, cerca de 15 minutos em voo, turbina numero 2 apresentou problemas e acabou danificando tambem parte da asa do super jumbo A380. Claro que no mundo atual totalmente "plugado", "conectado", etc, nao podia deixar de ser que o passageiro sentado logo ao lado da tal turbina em problemas tinha um gadget em maos para registrar tudo. E eis que o video jah esta disponivel na Internet:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11692478

Da para notar facilmente o estrago na asa.

Ate o Jenson Button?

Pois e, ate o Jenson Button leva susto em Sampa. Se bem que acho que tudo isso foi meio esquema de quadrilha internacional...Mas nao muda o fato de Sao Paulo continuar sendo uma cidade de alto indice de criminalidade. Pena que com toda a repercussao deste evento na midia internacional a imagem da cidade piora ainda mais.