@GamTrak 180747 wrote:
When I travel to places that I’ve never been I will video tape the landing and the take off, but I guess I should not do that anymore. LOL :Cry:
I turn everything else off when instructed to do so though. Below is what happened last week.
INVESTIGATORS say it is too early to blame laptop computers for a Qantas jet’s nosedive over WA – as the airline said it would refund passengers’ fares.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has said an “irregularity” in one of the plane’s computers may have caused the dramatic altitude change which hurled passengers around the cabin on the flight from Singapore to Perth.
Laptops could have interfered with the plane’s on-board computer system, it has been reported.
But the bureau says it’s too early to make that judgment.
Amazing new pictures of smashed cabin
A passenger clicking a wireless mouse mid-flight recently sent a Qantas jumbo jet off course on a three-degree bank, an ATSB report revealed.
“Certainly in our discussions with passengers that is exactly the sort of question we will be asking – ‘Were you using a computer?’,” an Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman said yesterday.
The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder had only just arrived at the ATSB’s Canberra headquarters and were yet to be analysed.
ATSB director of aviation safety investigation Julian Walsh said: “We don’t know, and we don’t fully understand the dynamics of this event.
“Certainly there was a period of time where the aircraft performed of its own accord,” he said.
Qantas offers refunds
Qantas says it will refund the fares of passengers on the plane.
More than 70 people on Qantas flight QF72 from Singapore to Perth were injured when the Airbus A330-300, carrying 303 passengers and 10 crew, suddenly dropped altitude on Tuesday.
Up to a dozen people were seriously hurt, including with spinal injuries, after the sudden drop sent the plane into a nosedive, throwing passengers around the cabin.
A Qantas spokesman said the company would contact each of the flight’s passengers and deal with those injured on a case by case basis.
“We will be arranging to refund the cost of all the Qantas travel on their itinerary in the form of an ex-gratia payment,” he said.
“We will also provide each customer with a Qantas travel voucher for the value of an equivalent flight between Australia and London.”
Qantas would talk directly to passengers who sustained injuries in the incident, the spokesman said.
“We will be talking to our customers directly about any other needs according to their individual circumstances and in particular in association with any injuries sustained as a result of this incident.”
This was huge news here actually…
The plane dropped 8,000 feet in 10 seconds… I’m a pretty bad flyer, but I can’t imagine what I would have been like if I was on that plane… I feel sorry for the people who got hurt, but at the same time they DO tell you to wear your setbelt at all times while seated right…
I guess there’s a reason why they tell you to turn off your electrical equipment too… it only takes 1!