A380 Crash

[uspilot]

SINGAPORE | Wed Nov 3, 2010 11:30pm EDT

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Qantas told CNBC television that a plane that crashed near Singapore was an Airbus A380. No other details were immediately available.
The plane can carry more than 500 passengers. Witnesses said they had heard an explosion over the Indonesian island of Batam.


Hope all are well....sad day....

 

[uspilot]

Better news

A Qantas A380 has been forced to return to Singapore's Changi Airport after pilots were forced to shut down one of its four engines.
QF32 was bound for Sydney when the engine failed.
A Qantas spokesman said the problems were with engine number two. She did not know why the engine had to be shut down.
The incident sparked widespread rumours over the internet through PPRuNe, that the plane had crashed, which Qantas said were wildly inaccurate.

 

[LongBeachTrijet]

Judging from the photo, the pilots didn't shut down the engine. It looks more like the engine blew itself up and the pilots simply put the switches in the right place

Qantas grounded the 380 fleet. Will they call Travolta for his 707 to help mitigate the lost capacity?

 

[dougdrvr]

Why are the nose gear dors open?

 

[LongBeachTrijet]

Inflight Pax Video

 

[flyboyike]

Why are the nose gear dors open?

Hydraulic failure. Speaking of that, it appears the Flying Halibut uses only two hydraulic systems and they run at 5000psi. Seems like not enough redundancy, especially in a piece of metal that huge.

 

[stupidpilot]

Qantas is reporting that they found oil leaks in three engines on their A380 fleet. Is this a load of BS? Isn't the A380 a fully computerized aircraft that will automatically shut down an engine due to high oil temp, low level or low pressure?

I don't know the Airbus as I have never flown one. Does anybody have some more knowledge about it's systems that can answer this better?

 

[WYOMINGPILOT]

This is why I fly Boeing!!!

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From a Qantas mate who knows one of the flight deck crew.

This was just a brief summary.
Loss of brake anti skid system, and other undercarriage problems, tyres blown on landing, used all of Singapore’s 4000M runway.
QF spin doctors doing overtime in Sydney trying to keep the lid on all of this.
A380s grounded for more than just engine problems.

More to come. Scary stuff.



1. Bus #2 is supposedly automatically powered by Bus #1 in the event of Engine #2 failure - didn't happen.




2. Buses #3 & #4 will supposedly power Bus #2 in the even that the auto transfer from Bus #1 fails - didn't happen.




3. After some time the RAT deployed for no apparent reason, locking out (as a load-shedding function) some still functioning services.




4. One of the frequently recurring messages warned of the aircraft approaching the aft CoG limit (the procedure calls for transferring fuel forward), the next message advised of fwd transfer pumps being u/s. This sequence occurred repeatedly.




5. Apparently landing/approach speeds are obtained from the FMS, but there weren't anywhere near sufficient fields to load all the defects for speed corrections - the crew loaded what they thought were the most critical ones.




6. The crew commenced an approach NOT because they'd sorted out all the problems but because they were very worried about the way-out-of-tolerance and steadily worsening lateral imbalance.




7. The aircraft stopped with just over 100 metres or runway left, brakes temps climbed to 900C and fuel pouring out of the ruptured tank. Unable to shutdown #1 engine (as previously mentioned) but elected not to evacuate at the fire services were attending in great numbers.




8. The other comment from the source of the above (who was on the flight deck) was that the aeroplane did many things they simply didn't understand and/or failed to operate as expected.






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[WYOMINGPILOT]

This is why I fly Boeing!!!

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From a Qantas mate who knows one of the flight deck crew.

This was just a brief summary.
Loss of brake anti skid system, and other undercarriage problems, tyres blown on landing, used all of Singapore’s 4000M runway.
QF spin doctors doing overtime in Sydney trying to keep the lid on all of this.
A380s grounded for more than just engine problems.

More to come. Scary stuff.



1. Bus #2 is supposedly automatically powered by Bus #1 in the event of Engine #2 failure - didn't happen.




2. Buses #3 & #4 will supposedly power Bus #2 in the even that the auto transfer from Bus #1 fails - didn't happen.




3. After some time the RAT deployed for no apparent reason, locking out (as a load-shedding function) some still functioning services.




4. One of the frequently recurring messages warned of the aircraft approaching the aft CoG limit (the procedure calls for transferring fuel forward), the next message advised of fwd transfer pumps being u/s. This sequence occurred repeatedly.




5. Apparently landing/approach speeds are obtained from the FMS, but there weren't anywhere near sufficient fields to load all the defects for speed corrections - the crew loaded what they thought were the most critical ones.




6. The crew commenced an approach NOT because they'd sorted out all the problems but because they were very worried about the way-out-of-tolerance and steadily worsening lateral imbalance.




7. The aircraft stopped with just over 100 metres or runway left, brakes temps climbed to 900C and fuel pouring out of the ruptured tank. Unable to shutdown #1 engine (as previously mentioned) but elected not to evacuate at the fire services were attending in great numbers.




8. The other comment from the source of the above (who was on the flight deck) was that the aeroplane did many things they simply didn't understand and/or failed to operate as expected.






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[Dornier 335]

This is why I fly Boeing!!!

Tell us more about the prefect and invincible Boeing, like 73 rudders, holes in fuselages, etc.

From a Qantas mate who knows one of the flight deck crew.

Says it all ...

Just wait until the Dreamliner flies the line