Journalism? QF575

[Rangalad]

I wonder when, if ever, sites that purport to have some aviation knowledge will actually work out that there probably isn't any such thing as an hydraulics warning light. ECAM and EICAS have only been around for 30 or so years.





I know that someone will tell me that I'm 'Mr Sympathy', but terrified by an evacuation at the gate? How would she have fared in so many of the other events that are discussed here?

Some of the claims that I've read don't match up with the data I can see on FR24. The landing does not look unusual. I can't tell whether it was towed to the gate or not, but that would be normal with some hydraulic issues (but not all).

An evacuation at the gate is an interesting event. The doors are disarmed, and so have to be armed again for the slides to operate. It's a toss up as to whether you'd be better off using the bridge or the slides. My preference was always to use the bridges if they were attached. I'm curious as to why all of the slides have not been fired. There was a procedure that allowed this, but it was removed a few years ago.

The captain

"Journalism" - story based on one tweet, https://www.theaustralian.com.au/…/1468d7d02a46345111458df2…

Passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney to Perth evacuated via slides after the plane was forced to return to Sydney when the cabin reportedly began filling with smoke.
AirlineRatings.com reports that a hydraulics warning light activated on flight QF575 on Sunday and when it landed back on the tarmac it had to be towed to a gate.

One passenger described the incident on Twitter as “terrifying”. “Just had to evacuate my flight to Perth after engineering issues. Everyone had to exit the plane via slide onto Sydney tarmac after the cabin filled with smoke and the captain screamed evacuate,” she tweeted.

AAP

Story disputed on Twitter thread, https://twitter.com/politic_ally/status/1205992177903366144, but most contact is from media looking to make contact. [sigh]

QF statement here - Qantas Responds - Qantas statement on QF575

#15minutesoffame

The captain ‘screamed’ evacuate.....

 

[Rangalad]

Both slides and aerobridges used to exit the aircraft.

First Qantas introduces priority boarding, and now priority exiting. What a month!

 

[Rangalad]

adjective: terrifying

1. causing extreme fear.

Yeah, she could have used another word

As a law student, "ANU Law | current affairs | australia | chinese language | international relations | feminist", I would have hoped that she had a wider vocabulary and better judgement ...

AAP could also have chosen to not report so sensationally on the basis it seems of one tweet ...

histrionics

 

[Rangalad]

I have always wanted to go down the slide.

It is fun ( in a safe, controlled environment)

 

[Rangalad]

I wonder when, if ever, sites that purport to have some aviation knowledge will actually work out that there probably isn't any such thing as an hydraulics warning light. ECAM and EICAS have only been around for 30 or so years.



I know that someone will tell me that I'm 'Mr Sympathy', but terrified by an evacuation at the gate? How would she have fared in so many of the other events that are discussed here?

Some of the claims that I've read don't match up with the data I can see on FR24. The landing does not look unusual. I can't tell whether it was towed to the gate or not, but that would be normal with some hydraulic issues (but not all).

An evacuation at the gate is an interesting event. The doors are disarmed, and so have to be armed again for the slides to operate. It's a toss up as to whether you'd be better off using the bridge or the slides. My preference was always to use the bridges if they were attached. I'm curious as to why all of the slides have not been fired. There was a procedure that allowed this, but it was removed a few years ago.

 

[Rangalad]

Bit of humour
There’s a QF urban legend bout a flight attendant at the end of a flight:Right Five disarmed, slide go wooosh....

 

[PineappleSkip]

screamed

terrified

Unfortunately it’s almost standard practice among tabloids to hype up all the adjectives for such stories. These two are tabloid cliches, applied like salt and pepper in the first and foremost step in seasoning news fakery.

And of course the reactions of some are different to the reactions of others. Some might scream in terror at unexpectedly finding a large spider.

Cheers skip

 

[Franky]

And of course the reactions of some are different to the reactions of others. Some might scream in terror at unexpectedly finding a large spider.
Cheers skip

Guilty...

 

[Quickstatus]

Is hydraulic fluid flammable?. Hot brakes a heat source?

 

[Franky]

Guilty...

MY worst memory of that was when in the Navy and one evening I was in a queue in a corridor lining up for dinner. I was standing against a row of windows. I noticed a couple of people in the other queue opposite me looking intently at me, then to my side. I turned my head to see an enormous huntsman spider as big as my hand directly behind me at shoulder height - basically only six inches from me. Thankfully, the windows were open, and the creature was between both window panes, but it took a number of years off my life I reckon.

 

[jb747]

Is hydraulic fluid flammable?. Hot brakes a heat source?

A high pressure mist can be ignited, but generally no.

I suspect that the APU bleed was somehow contaminated, or perhaps some of the fluid that had been lost found it's way into an a/c pack inlet. So smoke, but no fire.