QF 32 - Engine Exploded? (General discussion of the events)
Nov 3, 2010, 10:43 pm
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Nov 3, 2010, 10:45 pm
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I'm not yet aware of any AFF'ers on board, however some social media aware pax who were on board have been posting information which we'd been collating links to.
I'd copy/paste the details out of the thread, but can't extract it even from my cache at the moment.
Needless to say, my initial take on all of it having read pretty much every news & wire report - is that the wire services (AP & Reuters specifically) got the story monumentally wrong from the outset. They used unreliable local wire services, conflicting reports on the ground, and built a worse case scenario story that wasn't even close to the truth.
The AP wire story was also embarrassing in that it misspelt the name of the airline, adding a U into the name (thankfully which they've since fixed).
It also seems that Reuters may have even fabricated a quote which they claim was made to the news channel CNBC by an official of QF.
All in all, some wire services need a boot in the pants over this. Terrible reporting.
Nov 3, 2010, 10:50 pm
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Nov 3, 2010, 10:50 pm
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AFF is now back up, thread available at:
http://www.australianfrequentflyer.c...ing-26306.html
Strike that, down again.
Someone also had a photo of two Indonesian officials with the debris that fell to earth at Batam just before AFF went down again.
Comparing that image to the one Sydney Morning Herald has of the plane after landing at SIN, there can be no doubt despite QF PR claims to the contrary that the Batam debris belong to QF32. The pieces and engine are an exact match.
Here's the shot I'm referring to:
http://www.australianfrequentflyer.c...ing-26306.html
Strike that, down again.
Someone also had a photo of two Indonesian officials with the debris that fell to earth at Batam just before AFF went down again.
Comparing that image to the one Sydney Morning Herald has of the plane after landing at SIN, there can be no doubt despite QF PR claims to the contrary that the Batam debris belong to QF32. The pieces and engine are an exact match.
Here's the shot I'm referring to:
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Nov 3, 2010, 10:55 pm
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Nov 3, 2010, 10:58 pm
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Even more confident that we're looking at an uncontained engine failure.
People are already commenting on two such events in a short time period for Qantas. Keep in mind that it is likely two such Rolls-Royce events in short order (3 if you include the Trent 1000 failure).
People are already commenting on two such events in a short time period for Qantas. Keep in mind that it is likely two such Rolls-Royce events in short order (3 if you include the Trent 1000 failure).
Nov 3, 2010, 11:00 pm
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Even more confident that we're looking at an uncontained engine failure.
People are already commenting on two such events in a short time period for Qantas. Keep in mind that it is likely two such Rolls-Royce events in short order (3 if you include the Trent 1000 failure).
People are already commenting on two such events in a short time period for Qantas. Keep in mind that it is likely two such Rolls-Royce events in short order (3 if you include the Trent 1000 failure).
Nov 3, 2010, 11:05 pm
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Nov 3, 2010, 11:07 pm
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Nov 3, 2010, 11:08 pm
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