Quantas plane en-route to Argentina forced to turn back

[jcocks]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/8321812/qantas-flight-turns-back-to-sydney/

Have a read and NOTE THE TAKE-OFF TIME!!!!!

Ye gods........ something is up. :(

[Roofie]

Ummm, you may want to check what time zone your in??????

Sorry for the wake up call.. :)


Sorry for the above, Thought you were saying that the plane took off after the news ran the story???
You gotta love misinterpritation. ;)

[jcocks]

Taken direct from thre article :


Flight QF17, which departed Sydney International Airport at 11.11am (AEDT) on Monday with 119 passengers on board, turned around about one hour into the flight to Buenos Aires, a Qantas spokeswoman said. The plane was also carrying three flight crew and 18 cabin crew.

Not an unusual article in itself, but the time of departure is :)

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Yes, I know it's daylight savings time in Sydney now - so it actually took off at 10:11am..... but I don't think it's relevant. The fact still remains that 11:11 is a powerful number in numerology and is quoted in the article as the time of departure.

[Elandiel BernElve]

It's second time a Boeing plane ends up smoking. Earlier previous week or so, the same happened with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner during testflight.
Smoke in the cockpit, emergency landing etc.

It could have been good news for concurrent Airbus except their A380's have trouble as well these weeks. Twice already a A380 had to make an emergency landing due to fire and smoke coming from the Rolls-Royce Trend 900 engines. They expect it to be a design fault from Rolls Royce.

http://www.airlinereporter.com/2010/11/official-word-from-boeing-on-the-787-dreamliner-za002s-incident/
http://www.france24.com/en/20101112-rolls-royce-explains-failure-a380-engine-part-qantas-singapore-superjumbo-aviation-construction-problem

It's strange to notice 4 emergency landings within 2 weeks. Both the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 are fly by wire craft. Meaning the controls are all electronic instead of mechanical. Saving weight and space but in my opinion is far more vulnerable to possible upcoming increasing solar activity in the years to come.

IMO the take off time of 11:11 has little influence on this event.

[sargeist]

possibly the malaysian maintenance crews cannot handle the specifics of the rolls-royce engines

whether that is by default or design....

[astrid]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the latest solar activity?

[jcocks]

possibly the malaysian maintenance crews cannot handle the specifics of the rolls-royce engines

whether that is by default or design....

Except this time it was the electrical systems, not the engines...

[Operator]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the latest solar activity?

The Airbus A380 e.g. is more electrically and electronically driven instead of hydraulics ... a weird move given the potential for destructive solar activity.

[Snowbird]

It's second time a Boeing plane ends up smoking. Earlier previous week or so, the same happened with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner during testflight.
Smoke in the cockpit, emergency landing etc.

It's strange to notice 4 emergency landings within 2 weeks.

This, in addition to this Carnival cruise liner that was also smoking and knocked out the electricity. Taurean posted this on another thread.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11737645

[jcocks]

I just had a horrible thought :

All of a sudden, we've had a whole lot of Quantas planes with engines malfunctioning, electrical malfunctions, etc....

Could some government be using clandestine electronic warfare against quantas planes in order to try and send our government a message???

(Remember - we just ok'd a massive increase in Aus - US military co-operation on our bases).

Obvious choice for possible culprit would be China. (We're not enough of a threat to sabre-rattle with ICBMs)

Sounds crazy - but just a thought I had (And will now hide away :) )

[Elandiel BernElve]

It came in my thoughts as well, but two incidents would be no clear message (yet).
They'll have to take it further like the nazis did in WWII who started targeting civil vessels with their U-Boots often without leaving direct proof.
But more such acts against Australian and US civil transports would definately not remain unnoticed.