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Thread #133306   Message #3024632
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
05-Nov-10 - 06:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: Qantas A380 blows engine
Subject: RE: BS: Qantas A380 blows engine
The footage was originally confusing because of the camera angles - It seemed that the A380 outside engine failed, but it was the inboard engine (No 2 as stated). The fluid stream I mentioned was from the inboard engine, which did make a leak. There was a visible condensation cloud thru the flaps from that area on the landing. It was the outside engine (No 1) that would not shut down, and was cooled by the water spray on the ground. This was all a bit confusing at first due to the various camera angles, sorry. I just heard a passenger say that she saw small debris strike her window. Apparently a couple of types also burst.

I'm a bit puzzled why the passengers were held inside the plane for so long a while at first. The pilot did not want the slides used, as apparently some passengers always end up with injuries, so the steps were used.

It's nice that the Bataan people who gathered up the bits, and the authorities who safeguarded them were so publicly thanked. Most people like to do 'the right thing' and it is always a good thing to thank them for doing it. Some engine internal bits were also recovered.

The media is always hysterically sensationalist about all this stuff - I did a journalism course with a bunch of top world ex-editors - all the mature age people on the course were horrified and annoyed when our attempts to write dispassionately were put down and rephrased into 'normal' sensational language - we were told we would not get jobs if we wrote the way we did, and 'shown how to write "factual stuff"' in the stereotypical sensational hysterical journalistic mode. One of the exercises we did was about a similar airliner incident.