The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is now considering the remote possibility that a rogue cosmic ray or solar particle caused a Qantas A330-300 to twice dive out of control over Western Australia on October 7 last year.
Startling though this may sound, the second interim report into the accident, in which 12 people were seriously injured [...]
Tag Archives: Airbus A330
QF72: Did a cosmic ray zap the Airbus?
November 18, 2009 – 5:33 pm
ATSB probes Qantas (767) and Jetstar (A330) serious incidents
November 2, 2009 – 7:16 pm
Two recent incidents officially rated as serious involving Jetstar and Qantas flights are under investigation by the ATSB.
The Jetstar incident, on October 28, may have involved an iced up pitot or external speed measuring device on an A330 which was flying from Tokyo to the Gold Coast.
The flight experienced an involuntarily autopilot disconnection and [...]
AF447: Air France traps itself with leaked memo
October 25, 2009 – 8:13 pm
The latest response by Air France management to the June 1 crash of AF447 is dynamite.
Headed “Enough Scandals and False Debates about Flight Security!” it takes a swipe at the alleged indifference of some of its pilots to safety procedures.
Priceless! Hoisted by its own petard. Air France is responsible for the flight standards of its [...]
It’s a Jetstar a rising at Qantas
August 19, 2009 – 6:22 pm
The Jetstar ascendancy is now on in earnest at Qantas.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce set the airline on course for major changes in his briefings at the full year financial results presentations today.
The three year $1.5 billion ‘Q Future’ cost reduction program is officially about more efficient practices in aircraft procurement and fleet utilisation and processes [...]
Qantas: No 777s, more A330s, 87% less profits and group flew into negative earnings in second half
August 19, 2009 – 9:02 am
The Qantas full year to 30 June financial briefing was held this morning.
The Qantas group filings and presentations are available on www.asx.com.au under the code QAN.
The highlights are:
Profit before tax down 87% compared to the previous financial year to $181 million.
Profit after tax is $123 million. The corresponding figures in financial year 2008 were [...]
AF447’s last messages point to the ‘dragons’ that can destroy a jet
June 5, 2009 – 1:32 pm
For an air crash in which the ‘black boxes’ or any trace of the 228 victims may never be recovered, much has been learned about what happened to AF447 the Air France A330-200 jet that crashed in the mid-Atlantic early on 1 June.
This is because of a series of automated status messages relayed via satellite [...]
Another entry for the Airbus A330 X-files!
January 2, 2009 – 6:58 pm
The Harold E Holt naval communications base near Exmouth on WA’s North West Cape is about to get worked over again as a menace to airliners, at least in the excitable media.
A short while ago the Australian Transport Safety Bureau released this brief but important statement concerning a Qantas A330-300 that experienced an unexplained autopilot [...]
Lessons Learned at terrible cost
October 17, 2008 – 12:03 pm
The US Federal Aviation Administration or FAA has put up a new resource on Lessons Learned from major crashes.
So far there are 11 accidents on the website with plans to expand it to 40. With several of them outside the US already on the list it is possible that an Australian accident that changed air [...]
A unique incident that needs further examination
October 14, 2008 – 8:06 pm
The ATSB media briefing this evening, at a time and place almost no-one could attend and without dial-in facilities, has described the QF 72 accident as being caused by a ‘unique’ fault in the jet’s computer linked control systems.
A detailed statement issued after the briefing puts the spotlight on one of three sets of [...]
QF 72 late developments
October 14, 2008 – 3:01 pm
The ATSB has called a media conference to update the public on its QF 72 inquiry for this evening, coincidentally after most of the first editions of tomorrow’s newspapers will be locked up.
Earlier today someone in CASA drew the technical media’s attention to this list of airworthiness directives that apply to the Airbus A330-300 involved [...]
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