QANTAS emergency landing - forced change in altitude. WHY?

G'day all,

all the aussie members would have seen the following news report on tv tonight, a QF72 was forced to make a drastic drop in altitude which caused 40 passengers and crew to get injured, some pretty bad.

www.news.com.au...


What did the Qantas flight have to avoid so severely with such little notice to cause such a drop in altitude that it cause those sort of injuries?

What was up there that they almost hit?

and the fact that the nature of the mid air incident is unknown seems to smell of a coverup.....silence unitl we can think of a decent cover story.

anybody else find this story suspicious?

The plane landed at Exmouth, here there is also an airforce base called a bare base with basic facilties that can be reactivated at short notice. Tie this in with the following -
en.wikipedia.org...


Not far from here is the airforce base of Derby which has regular training of air force pilots.......

maybe going off the beaten track here but just trying to put 2 and 2 together......did the Qantas flight avoid a pilot training off course, or was it something else?

UFO?

Meteor?

i would find it maybe suspicious if qantas hadnt been having all the mid air dramas their having lately. its like nearly 10 incidents in the last 3 months. not long now till they have a crash

Apparently there was a combination of turbulence but also instrumentation problems. But it'd have to be some pretty serious instrumentation problem to drop altitude like that (I'm guessing).

Given Qantas's problems recently, I'm not particularly surprised.

We'll have to wait for some more detail, it's really "out in the sticks" - I remember the spin they put on it when the panel blew out of a Qantas flight a few months ago.

"Oh, this was just a minor incident, nothing to worry about..." Then the stories of people not being able to breathe trickled through and they had to admit there was in fact a serious problem.

Yeah......right.

Maybe they were dodging the UFO that's loitering around waiting for the 14th .

I would suggest that its a combination of mid air turbulence, which affects almost every flight at some point, some wose than others, and maybe they are cutting back on their maintanance to keep costs down in the current climate.

Im a believer, but to randomley suggest that they swerved to avoid a UFO seems crazy without ANY evidence to back it up. People on here amaze me somethimes with the reaches they make

yeah I thought it all seemed a little bit suss......but maybe Im just looking into it too much.

heres another link -
www.3aw.com.au...


either way, for the plane to decend so harsh and so quick that passengers ended up with lacerations and fractures, they would have been thrown out of their seats.......

do pilots normally "dive" the passenger plane when they encounter turbulance? its not as if it shows up on radar, normally they'd fly through wouldnt they?

If it were a simple matter of common turbulence, something that happens frequently, why are they being so 'cloak and dagger' about it?

That and the fact that different sources seem to be reporting different reasons. One says turbulence, another says instrument failure. Nobody seems to be getting the story straight.

Or off-shore maintenance.......


tell me its not the reason!!!!

do pilots normally "dive" the passenger plane when they encounter turbulance? its not as if it shows up on radar, normally they'd fly through wouldnt they?

I was in a twin engined Cessna flying over to Katherine, which is in the NT. The plane literally fell straight down because It hit a pocked of extreme low pressure air, i think we feel straight down 1000 - 1200ft. There is also happened to a scenic flight tour over Ayers Rock which is central aus in the late 80s.

I Don't know if there is any documented cases of extreme low pressure pockets in northern AUS but I certainly have experience it.

From au.news.yahoo.com...



This was not turbulence. I have NEVER heard of turbulence creating this much turmoil.

[edit on 7/10/2008 by Kryties]

reply to post by Melbourne_Militia

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There could be any number of rational explanations for what happened. Why do you jump to such drastic conclusions without evidence? That is the sign of a highly irrational mind. At least wait for some actual tangible evidence of anything untoward before coming out with this 'information'

reply to post by dave420

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Qantas has an almost squeaky clean flying record, being one of the worlds only airlines that has never had a single crash. That, coupled with the fact that the media cannot agree on what caused the plane to suddenly dive, and the fact that I personally have never heard of turbulence causing this much damage and turmoil is what makes us suspect that something else may be the cause.

reply to post by mungodave

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yes that is definately a factor. australia has probably the best air safety record in the world so its disapointing when qantas does this to try and save money.

Is it not more likely the aircraft encountered Godzilla and had to dive to avoid his sweeping arms? Or maybe the aircraft flew over that island from LOST? Actually, that would make a lot of sense .....

Turbulence? Instrument malfunction? What bizarre and strange ideas some folk have

I have.





Just remember, what a passenger may consider as 'severe' tubulence is typically not severe at all. Moderate at worst.

[edit on 7/10/2008 by C0bzz]

reply to post by C0bzz

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Fair enough hehe. Like I said I had never HEARD of turbulence doing that, and now I have learnt something new today Thanks.

Although I still think that perhaps it was something other than turbulence.

If a plane just "falls", the only thing that can happen is zero Gs. Everyone will become weightless. You won't be violently thrown to the ceiling (gravity doesn't take "longer" to pull you down than the plane itself). However, if the pilot put the plane into a negative G dive (for whatever reason) then people WOULD be thrown to the ceiling.

reply to post by sir_chancealot

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Apparently that's what happened...


www.abc.net.au...