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Qantas CFO Peter Gregg Resigns
Qantas chief financial officer Peter Gregg has resigned from the airline.Mr Gregg has announced his departure just weeks after the company named Jetstar head Alan Joyce as its new chief executive to replace Geoff Dixon.Mr Gregg, 53, will be succeeded by his deputy Colin Storrie, who assumes the role...
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Qantas Probe Centers on Oxygen Tank Explosion
Air safety investigators continue to probe the serious July 25 incident in which a Qantas flight en route from Hong Kong to Australia made an emergency landing in Manila after a large gaping hole developed on the fuselage of the Boeing 747-438 (VH-OJK), prompting the plane to...
Qantas makes third emergency landing in two weeks
World News IN BRIEF *SYDNEY Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority has formed a special team to find out if Qantas's safety standards are slipping, after a third emergency landing in a week by the airline. On Saturday, a Boeing 767 had to abort a flight from...
QUANTAS ALERT 2
A MANILA-bound Qantas jet with 200 people on board returned to Sydney yesterday after a hydraulic leak was detected. Last week an exploding oxygen bottle blew a hole in a Qantas jet flying from London to Melbourne...
Qantas in alert No2
A QANTAS jet with 200 passengers on board had to turn and return to Sydney yesterday as a new mid-air emergency hit the Australian airline. The Manila-bound flight's pilot radioed an alert after he detected hydraulic fluid leaking from a wing, but landed without incident. ...
Letter: Your Say - BOYS' HELL IN THE AIR
I WAS amazed by your story about the Irish family who cheated death in the Qantas jet. The pictures of the mam and dad and two terrified children really chilled me to the bone. To think a thing like this can happen...
Australian regulator announces special investigation into Qantas
SYDNEY AFP — Australian civil aviation officials on Sunday announced a special review of Qantas after three mid-air dramas in the space of two weeks. The investigation by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority CASA will take place over the next two weeks, spokesman Peter Gibson said. ...
Commotion all the way - it's the price you have to pay
A cacophony from beginning to end: that was my experience on last Sunday's Ryanair flight from Cork to Stansted. Fair enough, the safety briefing needs to be good and audible - and if there is one benefit from the Qantas incident last weekend, in which a 747 made an emergency...
Cylinder fragments blasted into Qantas cabin: investigators
SYDNEY AFP — Fragments of an oxygen cylinder blasted into a Qantas jet's passenger cabin mid-flight with enough force to shear off a door lever when an explosion punctured the jet's body, investigators said Wednesday. The Boeing 747-400, with a huge hole in its fuselage, then made an...
Oxygen tank exploded on Qantas aircraft, investigators say
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Investigators have said that the hole in a Qantas aircraft which made an emergency landing on 25 July was caused when an oxygen cylinder exploded. The Boeing 747-400 aircraft, flying from Hong Kong to Melbourne, diverted to the Philippines after...
Suspect canisters on Qantas were unlike ValuJet's, experts say
A probe into whether an exploding oxygen cylinder may have ripped a hole in a Qantas Airways Ltd. jet last Friday brought to mind a deadly crash 12 years ago when oxygen canisters ignited a fire that caused a ValuJet DC-9 to plunge into the Everglades. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman...
How to fly without fear
If the thought of climbing aboard a plane this summer fills you with dread, don'tdespair. Jane Feinmann has eight tried-and-tested routes to serenity in the skies Last week's "terror plunge" to an emergency landing by a Qantas jumbo jet will have done little to soothe the...
Second Qantas jet diverts after door fails to retract
World News IN BRIEF *CANBERRA A Qantas passenger plane bound for Melbourne was forced to turn back to Adelaide airport for an emergency landing yesterday after reporting a mechanical problem, three days after a plane from the same airline had to land in the Philippines with...
Qantas announces new CEO
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Qantas Airways Limited has announced today (28 July) that Alan Joyce will become the new chief executive officer of Qantas. Joyce, who will take over from Geoff Dixon upon his retirement, is currently CEO of Jetstar, a subsidiary airline of...
NTSB sends team to assist in investigating Qantas accident
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US National Transportation Safety Board NTSB announced on Friday (25 July) that it plans to send a team of investigators to the Philippines to help investigate the Qantas accident. A Qantas aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing...
Qantas 747 Fuselage Rips Open in Midair
A Qantas flight en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila July 25 after a large gaping hole developed on the fuselage of the Boeing 747-400, prompting the plane to lose cabin pressure. All 346 passengers and 19 crew aboard Qantas...
Oxygen cylinder 'exploded on jet'
World News IN BRIEF *MANILA Australian investigators said the reason a Qantas jet had to make an emergency landing in the Philippines last Friday may have been an exploding oxygen cylinder. The plane landed with a big hole in its fuselage after losing cabin pressure over...
Investigators find metal fragments in Qantas plane in Philippines
MANILA AFP — Metal fragments from an oxygen cylinder have been recovered from a Qantas jumbo jet after a mid-air explosion forced it to make an emergency landing in Manila, an Australian investigator said Monday. The Qantas Boeing 747-400, which made the emergency landing after its fuselage was...
Qantas says no danger after plane aborts flight
MELBOURNE, Australia, July 29, 2008 AFP — Passengers aboard a Qantas jet that was forced to abort a domestic flight after a landing gear door failed to retract were never in any danger, the airline said Tuesday. A Boeing 737-800 of the Australian airline was forced back to...
Jumbo jet oxygen tank blast would be a first: officials
SYDNEY AFP — An onboard oxygen bottle has never before exploded on a passenger jet in mid-air, airline and air safety officials said Monday, as investigators probed the cause of a huge hole in a Qantas jumbo. The Australian carrier is carrying out urgent inspections of oxygen bottles...
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Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation: 481111
