Qantas shuts down engine, aborts flight

[TallDutch]

Sydney: The captain of a Qantas Airbus A330 carrying 168 passengers to Singapore had to shut down an engine and turn back to Perth after an oil warning light flashed, the airline said yesterday. The plane flew back to the west Australian city on one engine after the mid-air drama on Friday. Passengers were rescheduled on a replacement flight that took off nearly five hours late. “Initial inspections by engineers indicate that a fault with the engine starter motor could have led to the engine oil problem,” Qantas spokesman David Cox told the Sydney Morning Herald.

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http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Displa ... 091751.xml

[unilitha]

What is happening to Qantas ?! They were one of the safest airline weren't they ? And in a period of 6 months they have accounted more than 4 flights incidents among them two were serious if I am not wrong. How can they explain this ?

[LX-LGX]

Incidents happen all over the world, but every single incident with Qantas is now hot news.

Some incidents from the last week - not previously mentionned on luchtzak.be:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1120/dublin.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chr ... 29437.html
http://english.eastday.com/eastday/engl ... 96751.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008- ... 389399.htm

[Desert Rat]

I don't understand why an In-flight shutdown is making the news....

Anyway, I guess it is the fear factor...