Qantas flight from Auckland to Sydney makes mayday call

[QF WP]

Actually, this QF144 situation reminds me of this AirNZ flight 1104 engine out issue leaving SYD:

 

[nancypants]

It is a backronyn.

(It derives from the French Panne (breakdown))

Ok so probably doesn’t stand for “possible assistance needed”

 

[jpp42]

The issue with the engine was reported to have occurred about one hour out of Sydney. I'd suggest Sydney was the closest suitable.

Thanks, your comment and justinbrett's comments on the radar data make sense. Seems like the previous few pages were all baseless speculation then.

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(It derives from the French Panne (breakdown))

Yep, and Mayday is originally, "m'aidez" which means "Help me!" in French and pronounced roughly like "mayday."

 

[justinbrett]

Thanks, your comment and justinbrett's comments on the radar data make sense. Seems like the previous few pages were all baseless speculation then.

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Yep, and Mayday is originally, "m'aidez" which means "Help me!" in French and pronounced roughly like "mayday."

And SOS doesn't actually stand for anything.

It's just an easy morse code (dot dot dot - dash dash dash - dot dot dot)

 

[Saab34]

Can the media pull it back a notch? In one week last month the USA had 4 shutdowns, its nothing new.

Driving home just now, Tom Elliot on 3AW trying to really drama it up. Changed the channel.

 

[serfty]

And SOS doesn't actually stand for anything.

I though it meant "Save Our Souls" ...

 

[RichardMEL]

I can barely contain my excitement for the 6pm news services about how much danger they were in and the "crash landing"(come on, you know SOMEONE has to claim that!) and all the other over dramatic comments/headlines that can be made.

re Tom Elliott referenced above.. he stupidly used the word "il-fated" to describe the flight - which basicaly would mean there was a massiv e accident or damage or fatalities etc. I am pretty sure he didn't mean that exact word but it didn't help.

I mean at the end of the day the aircraft landed normally with all systems operating as expected per safety standards (apart from one engine, obviously). It even arrived relatively on time! lol

but bring on the doom and gloom or the "miracle survival stories" and the like coming up at 6.....

*gets popcorn*

 

[justinbrett]

I though it meant "Save Our Souls" ...

Nope, backronym.

Maritime is full of random codes like this. Like BZ = good job.

 

[Quickstatus]

Save Our Souls" ...

Save our ships if maritime.

But the ...---... had nothing to do with the letters. It was not derived from the letters - it just happened to coincide with those letters

 

[Quickstatus]

Apparently some passengers slept through it.

 

[RichardMEL]

yeah it seems like no announcement was made until on finals so I guess that answers the cabin service question....

 

[RooFlyer]

Can the media pull it back a notch? In one week last month the USA had 4 shutdowns, its nothing new.

Driving home just now, Tom Elliot on 3AW trying to really drama it up. Changed the channel.

I've blithely missed it all up to now, but give the media a break. The USA may have had 4 shutdowns last month, but it is (thankfully) unusual here/on Australian airlines so its not as though they can ignore it. Neither the journos (save a few) nor their audiences live and breath aviation like AFFers!!

Sure, some of the coverage sounds a bit OTT (as it is, every day); this is how I first learned about it (Oz on-line)

 

[Quickstatus]

The "plane landed heavily" got me. All videos so far showed the pilots greased it in. Maybe the journos called it heavy because they saw wheel smoke on landing"

 

[milehighclub]

Hope they didn't interview this crew. Some fine reporting there!

Source news.com.au

 

[Rich]

More importantly, does anyone have any pictures? I mean of the meal in J.

 

[TheInsider]

More importantly, does anyone have any pictures?

 

[RSD]

One of the early news articles about this quoted a paramedic inspector saying something like "we are all going to the airport in case the landing doesn't end well" or something like that - I can't remember the exact words but it did seem rather unusual language from an emergency services professional

 

[RooFlyer]

Hope they didn't interview this crew. Some fine reporting there!

Source news.com.au

Okay, we don’t have to give all the media a break.

 

[Saab34]

Ohh look at the damage!!!!

 

[RSD]

The spinny bits stopped spinning.