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Title: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: nookiebear on November 08, 2010, 02:07:10 PM
After the recent uncontained engine failure on the Qantas A380 ,Would you feel happy flying on one powered by the RR Trent Engine??
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: Admin on November 08, 2010, 02:14:47 PM
After the recent uncontained engine failure on the Qantas A380 ,Would you feel happy flying on one powered by the RR Trent Engine??

so few pieces fell off....  pray1 reiki1
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: nookiebear on November 08, 2010, 02:34:24 PM
After the recent uncontained engine failure on the Qantas A380 ,Would you feel happy flying on one powered by the RR Trent Engine??

so few pieces fell off....  pray1 reiki1
Almog ,do you know the pre-requisite for any failure on any avaition engine?
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: Admin on November 08, 2010, 03:06:43 PM
After the recent uncontained engine failure on the Qantas A380 ,Would you feel happy flying on one powered by the RR Trent Engine??

so few pieces fell off....  pray1 reiki1
Almog ,do you know the pre-requisite for any failure on any avaition engine?

It was a joke....  whistle crazydance

Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: isanbirder on November 08, 2010, 05:20:57 PM
I don't feel safe on any aircraft... only way is just to take it as it comes.  Only lost one friend in an air crash so far... and that was a long while ago, so it's maybe time for the next (or me?).
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: pablo on November 08, 2010, 06:54:41 PM
After the recent uncontained engine failure on the Qantas A380 ,Would you feel happy flying on one powered by the RR Trent Engine??

Although it looks pretty bad, we can be thankful that there were no injuries.

I think I'd be OK with flying it, even though a relatively new engine.

Even long standing engine designs can sometimes have catastrophic failures.   The Pratt & Whitney JT8D was one of the most utilized engines in air transport for a couple of decades (last century 555)...and check out this link, as an example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1288#cite_note-NTSB1288-1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1288#cite_note-NTSB1288-1)
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: TBWG on November 08, 2010, 07:38:42 PM

If you ever get on a motorbike in Thailand you are many hundreds of times more likely to be killed than in an aircraft incident!

Just like in the UK you are more likely to be murdered than win the biggy in the lottery.   All Statistics when your number is up! it's up.

Air Travel is safest form of travel fatalities per 100,000 miles


TBWG sawadi
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: nookiebear on November 08, 2010, 09:00:27 PM
After the recent uncontained engine failure on the Qantas A380 ,Would you feel happy flying on one powered by the RR Trent Engine??

Although it looks pretty bad, we can be thankful that there were no injuries.

I think I'd be OK with flying it, even though a relatively new engine.

Even long standing engine designs can sometimes have catastrophic failures.   The Pratt & Whitney JT8D was one of the most utilized engines in air transport for a couple of decades (last century 555)...and check out this link, as an example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1288#cite_note-NTSB1288-1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1288#cite_note-NTSB1288-1)
All engines are liable to fail during their working life, but the worrying aspect in this case is that it was uncontained.....
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: Bigbus on November 08, 2010, 11:29:22 PM
All the years I worked in a Aircraft engine overhaul shop I seen 2 engine turbine sections blow up....it is very rare but this A380 engine problem is big in the news because the aircraft is new.....my experience there is no engine really any better than the other whether it's RR or GE or PW.......it's mostly customer preference....Aviation is still the safest way to travel....

We had more engine in the shop from bird strikes that failure of the engines....a big bird does major damage.....
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: nookiebear on January 27, 2011, 09:43:02 AM
After yet an other 'airborne return' by a Qantas aircraft how would you feel flying with them??
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: tonypace01 on January 27, 2011, 11:49:42 PM
If I could afford them, I'd go.
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: den Buut on January 28, 2011, 01:02:18 PM
Good they always return before they crash, after would be much more difficult. mhihi
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: nookiebear on January 28, 2011, 01:34:40 PM
Good they always return before they crash, after would be much more difficult. mhihi
But why are they malfunctioning in the 1st place??
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: redrover on February 04, 2011, 07:56:08 PM
No. They've gone downhill and won't recover from the glory years.
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: Dave the Dude on February 05, 2011, 04:52:08 PM
No. They've gone downhill and won't recover from the glory years.
Verytrue, just like their sister company British Airways.
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: redrover on February 05, 2011, 04:58:26 PM
No. They've gone downhill and won't recover from the glory years.
Verytrue, just like their sister company British Airways.
You could extend these tales to one and many respected carriers of yesteryear, Dave. Numerous airlines are declining. Signs of the times, perhaps.
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: nookiebear on February 05, 2011, 07:49:09 PM
No. They've gone downhill and won't recover from the glory years.
Verytrue, just like their sister company British Airways.
Dave you obviously know nothing about aircraft maintenance & even less about the actual airlines....BA sold its shares in Qantas several years ago....
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: Dave the Dude on February 05, 2011, 08:57:50 PM
Your 100% correct Mister Plane Spotter  jumping10
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: redrover on February 05, 2011, 09:01:26 PM
Don't mess with NB. He knows everything.... alcoholic
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: nookiebear on February 06, 2011, 11:05:16 AM
Don't mess with NB. He knows everything.... alcoholic
Re Airlines & airline maintainence proceedures I probably know a lot more than most on here having been a licensed aircraft engineer with BA for 37 years
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: den Buut on February 06, 2011, 12:23:56 PM
Don't mess with NB. He knows everything.... alcoholic
Re Airlines & airline maintainence proceedures I probably know a lot more than most on here having been a licensed aircraft engineer with BA for 37 years
And after Nookie retired fatal accidents where history... redman
Title: Re: QANTAS would you fly with them??
Post by: pablo on February 06, 2011, 06:49:36 PM
I'd not hesitate to fly with Qantas.

I'm sure that their "in house" maintenance is impeccable, but sadly they do "outsource" a lot of work to cheaper labor operators.  (but then, that's what fuels the low airfares you all enjoy, right?)