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This wouldn't have been a very pleasent experience for the passengers or crew while flying along at 40,000ft



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7524733.stm
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Safest airline in the world though.
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Alegedly, when they wrote off a 747 a few years back, the paid $100million to have the aircraft repaired and brought back into service to keep that reputation.
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wing/fuselage interface?

The rip stop panels seem to have failed as well; one has torn diagonally straight across rather than through the perforations
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looks like a new air miles scheme to me
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wounder if any body lost there bags?
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I wonder who's house the bit landed on

Also... looks like wood on that panel that ripped off. Fortunate that no-one was hurt though!

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The diagonal tears could be because of debris hitting the pannels as bags could have fallen out, oxygen bottles or fire extinguishers could have popped during the flight.
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quote:
Originally posted by VegasPhil
I wonder who's house the bit landed on

Also... looks like wood on that panel that ripped off. Fortunate that no-one was hurt though!
Maybe some Chinese fishermens boats as it happened at sea...

The panel that covers that area is a composite panel. It will have more than likely been laid up with some kind of packing material like foam in between the composite layers to give it some strength which is why it looks a bit like wood.

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its just a hole?
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I would actually have shit my pants if i was a passenger on that plane
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its just a hole?
Which = decomression. You need to descend to 10,000ft PDQ when that happens because the oxygen masks that pop out only give you about 10mins supply. That and the air rushing in through the hole damaged the floor directly above the hole and cased sections of the ceiling to fall off in the cabin.
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It's just a hole
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at its just a hole, that's clearly somebody who doesn't even have a basic understanding of any sort of mechanics.
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Yea, think about it. Loud bang, then emergancy descent. You would certainly feel the descent, it would probably feel more like you are falling from the sky to the average passenger with a little bit of a fear of flying.
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The slightest change in dB from the engine pesters the fuck out of me never mind a sudden descent!
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quote:
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at its just a hole, that's clearly somebody who doesn't even have a basic understanding of any sort of mechanics.


was it not clear enough i was taking the mick?
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We won't take that as an excuse, we all know you were serious.
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We won't take that as an excuse, we all know you were serious.

your right.

i tried to hide my retardism and failed.

ill close the door when i leave
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Plane on its way to Australia right? Wasn't Flight 518 was it?
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Flight QF30.
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
The slightest change in dB from the engine pesters the fuck out of me never mind a sudden descent!


me too hammer
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Plane on its way to Australia right? Wasn't Flight 518 was it?


i think you mean 815

seriously though i would never fly qantas. would rather pay a few quid more and fly with a decent airline

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