London Flight 'Plunges' 20,000ft

[Corporal]

It's London to Melborne via Hong Kong for fuel

And it had just took off from hong kong:s

The title of the thread should be Qantas flight.
as by saying it was a london flight people will think it happend near us.
I bet it was one of those three aircraft qantas bought off that dodgey bust asian airline.

[Jamesy]

It's really weird... I was watching Air Crash this morning, it was about flight United 811, where the almost same thing happened, although 811 was devastating... creepy!!

Glad they're all ok.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngyll...eature=related

isn't flight 811 the one where the cargo door rips of and the plane lost an entire side?

The plane has to dive otherwise they all die from oxygen starvation .

[efq]

I wouldn't of found it scary THAT MUCH.

The whole wasn't that big but as you can see as Qantas has said to be the safest airline.

The immediete drop of oxygen masks was good and obviously they staff on board we're trained to keep calm.

[cocaine]

did the press also mention the pilot fighting for the controls as the airplane plummeted towards the earth at a 90 degree angle, whilst the wing almost snapping off and both engines failing?

kudos to the pilot for getting down safely

[Markeh]

yeah 811 was devastating. This crash is shocking as I am flying in like 3 weeks MyTravel never had an incident to my knowledge (guess who were flying with!) I found a website with details of all plane 'incidents' http://Aviation-safety.net
quite interesting!

[Corporal]

I wouldn't of found it scary THAT MUCH.

The whole wasn't that big but as you can see as Qantas has said to be the safest airline.

The immediete drop of oxygen masks was good and obviously they staff on board we're trained to keep calm.

yer just a shame that will end because there aircraft are rusting to bits.

[Spiffing]

yeah 811 was devastating. This crash is shocking as I am flying in like 3 weeks MyTravel never had an incident to my knowledge (guess who were flying with!) I found a website with details of all plane 'incidents' http://Aviation-safety.net
quite interesting!

lol omg look what happened this month

Crew:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 Passengers:Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 Total:Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
Crashed and burned shortly after takeoff.

Isnt that lovely ;l

[cocaine]

yer just a shame that will end because there aircraft are rusting to bits.

evidence for this? O_o

[xxMATTGxx]

did the press also mention the pilot fighting for the controls as the airplane plummeted towards the earth at a 90 degree angle, whilst the wing almost snapping off and both engines failing?

kudos to the pilot for getting down safely

What makes me laugh is that the press no nothing at all. So the pilot fighting for the controls can be a loud of Bull and could be so false, they just want it to make good so people will view the story.

Looking at some sources on Airliners.net and other websites, the aircraft has had an history of corrosion. So that could be the cause? Hmm.

Qantas boss Geoff Dixon has denied corrosion caused a hole in the body of the plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Manila.

Although, he could be just saying that to save his butt!

[no waiii]

ehhh it takes enough to get me on a plane as it is but I'd never get on one again if that happened