Qantas plane makes emergency landing at SYD

[markis10]

Contained doesn't mean that it didn't throw bits of metal, only that they came out of the exhaust.

Agree, I was responding to an earlier post (quoted) saying it was uncontained, I have heard reports a tyre may have failed.

 

[tomlee1986]

According to flightradar24 - its VH-VYH - that is an 19 year old 737

 

[ayebee]

reasonably non-sensational report from ABC on utube.
decent vision showing the aircraft stopping at end of 34L for inspection before taxiing to terminal.

 

[flydoc]

reasonably non-sensational report from ABC on utube.
decent vision showing the aircraft stopping at end of 34L for inspection before taxiing to terminal.

Agree the reporting on the incident by ABC online is reasonably circumspect, but the opinion piece from a veteran ABC journalist who was on board the flight read a little more emotively than perhaps I’d have expected from someone who describes having taken hundreds of flights in a variety of contexts over 4 decades

ABC journalist reveals moment his blood ran cold during Qantas take-off emergency

ABC journalist Mark Willacy describes the unexpected moment when the Sydney to Brisbane Qantas flight QF520 was forced to make an emergency landing.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Captain Halliday]

Question for @AviatorInsight or @jb747

Is the engine out procedure different depending on which engine?

In this case it was #2 and they maintained RWY heading at first, then a left turn.

Would the opposite have happened if it was the #1, or is the procedure the same?

 

[jase05]

Gave me a chuckle

 

[jase05]

Back to being serious though, I did notice how high that grass was and wondering why it has been allowed to get that way. Lack of maintenance it seems

 

[Saab34]

Question for @AviatorInsight or @jb747

Is the engine out procedure different depending on which engine?

In this case it was #2 and they maintained RWY heading at first, then a left turn.

Would the opposite have happened if it was the #1, or is the procedure the same?

ATC advised them to simply maintain runway heading on the comms. They then asked later on what they wanted to do next, which was return left circuit on 34L

 

[AviatorInsight]

Question for @AviatorInsight or @jb747

Is the engine out procedure different depending on which engine?

In this case it was #2 and they maintained RWY heading at first, then a left turn.

Would the opposite have happened if it was the #1, or is the procedure the same?

It doesn’t matter. It’s the same procedure. Our procedures off runway 34L/R are to maintain runway track until we reach the minimum safe altitude and then we can ask for vectors to go somewhere out of the way to do checklists.

 

[jastel]

Without the bushfire there wouldnt have been much to film....

 

[justinbrett]

They called a Pan Pan Pan climbing out due engine failure.

That’s either one too many pans, or three short.

 

[jb747]

If you want to see what a one engine takeoff looks like, see here. Certainly the degraded climb performance is quite evident.

That’s a really interesting bit of video. The undercarriage should be up, as soon as it’s possible to do so. The requirements for climb with engine out, and gear down are simply that the gradient not be negative. It’s not going to start going up until you get rid of all that drag. The engine is completely irrelevant, and should be ignored until you’ve got the gear up, and are climbing at V2. Airbus nominate a minimum of 400’ before looking at the ECAM. Acceleration and subsequent clean up will have minimum height of 1,000-1,500’.

 

[RooFlyer]

Agree the reporting on the incident by ABC online is reasonably circumspect, but the opinion piece from a veteran ABC journalist who was on board the flight read a little more emotively than perhaps I’d have expected from someone who describes having taken hundreds of flights in a variety of contexts over 4 decades

Perhaps this reflects how terrifying - yes, terrifying - such an incident can be for those pax involved. We can see 'oh, its just an engine failure' but on board you have no idea - just that there is a big problem with the plane after a bang - shaking and not climbing much. Over 1,500 flights later, I'm sure I'd be terrified too, at least until the captain came on.

 

[Mwenenzi]

avherald report --> The Aviation Herald

 

[moa999]

ATC audio mapped to aircraft position

 

[nancypants]

I did like this detail in the Australian’s report, not sure why!

Both women, however, said they appreciated the complimentary $15 gift card they’d received.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/engine-explosion-ignites-sydney-airport-grass-fire/news-story/0e3c5fc90f94e494a272f9b3c99948f1?amp

 

[tomlee1986]

I did like this detail in the Australian’s report, not sure why!

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/engine-explosion-ignites-sydney-airport-grass-fire/news-story/0e3c5fc90f94e494a272f9b3c99948f1?amp

$15 gift card is a nice token gesture, but not much can be brought with it sadly

 

[moa999]

Photo of the blades here.
Possible FOD or bird?

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104581410

 

[markis10]

Try Photo shows torn and twisted blades of jet turbine on Qantas plane that was forced to make emergency landing

 

[flydoc]

A followup article on ABC news online focusing on the fire & rescue response to the incident and some comment from a former CASA manager and now academic who appears to be the new media go-to for ‘expert’ aviation safety comment. The story also mentions some small metallic items found in the grass adjacent to 34R before deviating into a more general discussion about FOD prevention/detection.

Metal particles found in 'very unusual' discovery near runway after Qantas flight engine failure, grassfire

Firefighters at Sydney Airport have found small pieces of metal in long grass near the runway where a Qantas flight suffered an engine failure, triggering a grassfire.

www.abc.net.au