SQ228 grounded in Melbourne
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SQ 228 flight for today has been grounded in Melbourne due to a technical problem. If any of you are waiting for relatives - 9 am tomorrow is the next flight for the grounded passengers in Melbourne.
Was there to see a friend off on a qantas flight. So if any of you are waiting for relatives , just some early info for you.
Wah ...SIA now ......ai yo -
What kind of technical problems? Bomb threat of something?
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Dunno....I think I overheard some engine problem that they cannot solve for today or something , and something about another plane coming in tomorrow to take the passengers.
Oh ya the guy was asking them to queue up - one for taxi vouchers for those who have to go home and the other is for accomodation for visitors who are not from Melbourne, I think.
I was just busybody wondering why such a big unhappy crowd so I went there to look.
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lucky... nv crash...
Must be damn scary when they needed to land suddenly.. -
didn expect SIA to be like that
it's a
"9V-SPP the Singapore Airlines Star Alliance 747-412"
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thought there was an SQ flight which plane got a nut dropped onto somebody house?
skarli the same plane. -
How they know the nut comes from that particular SQ flight? Unless of course the plane drop its nut(pun intended) while landing or taking off.Originally posted by alwaysdisturbed:thought there was an SQ flight which plane got a nut dropped onto somebody house?
skarli the same plane.
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What a ugly looking plane
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For an aircraft, every single piece part from a plane is painstakingly marked and recorded. That nut in question was not some M3 X 5 you can pick up at your neighbourhood hardware store. And yes, they did trace it back to an SQ flight which was taking off as reported quite awhile back. Luckily it wasn't something critical.Originally posted by tankee1981:How they know the nut comes from that particular SQ flight? Unless of course the plane drop its nut(pun intended) while landing or taking off. -
Thanks i didn't know about this incident and the part about every part being marked and recorded. Learned something new today.Originally posted by ditzy:For an aircraft, every single piece part from a plane is painstakingly marked and recorded. That nut in question was not some M3 X 5 you can pick up at your neighbourhood hardware store. And yes, they did trace it back to an SQ flight which was taking off as reported quite awhile back. Luckily it wasn't something critical.
Guess thats how the investigators piece back the wreakage of a plane after a crash and can tell you specifically which part of the plane is faulty such as a loose nut. -
The plane is not ugly but the paint job...lets just say...there is room for improvement...Originally posted by Agenda:What a ugly looking plane -
the pic is of SQ288 very long ago leOriginally posted by tankee1981:The plane is not ugly but the paint job...lets just say...there is room for improvement... cannot find it in airline colours -
You thank me, I thank the discovery channel. I watched this documentary about a plane crash where they partially attributed the cause to it being an engineer used a different although workable part for a the plane's maintainence, and didn't register the change into the log book. The part in questioned turned out to be screws, no bigger than your hand.
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i think i saw that too.Originally posted by ditzy:You thank me, I thank the discovery channel. I watched this documentary about a plane crash where they partially attributed the cause to it being an engineer used a different although workable part for a the plane's maintainence, and didn't register the change into the log book. The part in questioned turned out to be screws, no bigger than your hand.
something about the windscreen is it? -
Yeah yeah yeah that was it!!!! The windscreen came off halfway in flight, and the plane landed with half the pilot out the window. Miraculously he survived the ordeal to fly again. I don't think its wise to name the airline in question right?Originally posted by alwaysdisturbed:i think i saw that too.
something about the windscreen is it? -
Why not? It takes one hell of a steady and cool pilot to land a jumbo jet filled with screaming passengers with his partner halfway out of the windscreen! Give that man a Tiger!Originally posted by ditzy:Yeah yeah yeah that was it!!!! The windscreen came off halfway in flight, and the plane landed with half the pilot out the window. Miraculously he survived the ordeal to fly again. I don't think its wise to name the airline in question right?
Btw whats the airline har? -
I remembered it was british airways, but it was a domestic flight.Originally posted by tankee1981:Why not? It takes one hell of a steady and cool pilot to land a jumbo jet filled with screaming passengers with his partner halfway out of the windscreen! Give that man a Tiger!
Btw whats the airline har? The plane was half empty because it was holiday season. -
Eh? I thought holiday season more people travelling?Originally posted by ditzy:I remembered it was british airways, but it was a domestic flight. The plane was half empty because it was holiday season. -
It was the holiday itself.Originally posted by tankee1981:Eh? I thought holiday season more people travelling? How do our hawker centres look like in singapore during CNY? -
Originally posted by tankee1981:Why not? It takes one hell of a steady and cool pilot to land a jumbo jet filled with screaming passengers with his partner halfway out of the windscreen! Give that man a Tiger!
Btw whats the airline har? -
that certainly isnt the SQ star alliance 744 bird, thats the tropical scheme on one of 2 744s painted and this one, papa kilo, is the one that went down in taipei. the remaining one had the scheme removed after her sistership crashed.Originally posted by kenn3th:
didn expect SIA to be like that
it's a
"9V-SPP the Singapore Airlines Star Alliance 747-412"
Ugly???Pls... this scheme is recognised as one of the most stunning ever painted on a commercial plane. -
The reason they grounded the plane is purely for safety reasons and technical glitches like this common in every airlines and every plane.Originally posted by fymk:SQ 228 flight for today has been grounded in Melbourne due to a technical problem. If any of you are waiting for relatives - 9 am tomorrow is the next flight for the grounded passengers in Melbourne.
Was there to see a friend off on a qantas flight. So if any of you are waiting for relatives , just some early info for you.
Wah ...SIA now ......ai yo
As a SIA passenger, SIA will be transfer you to a 5 star hotel to stay there for a night and all meals will be provided.
There is no need to "aiyo" just because it is Singapore airline. -
To be clear, I am not picking on SIA. I am an SIA patron. The nut bolt on a sydney house does not inspire confidence in any way. And SIA ranking dropped to 7th in the world in 2006. That's a big ai yo. What the heck happened to the Singaporean airline which made every Singaporean beam with joy when mentioned?Originally posted by Gazelle:The reason they grounded the plane is purely for safety reasons and technical glitches like this common in every airlines and every plane.
As a SIA passenger, SIA will be transfer you to a 5 star hotel to stay there for a night and all meals will be provided.
There is no need to "aiyo" just because it is Singapore airline. -
Sadly, when you reach the top, the only direction you can go is down.Originally posted by fymk:To be clear, I am not picking on SIA. I am an SIA patron. The nut bolt on a sydney house does not inspire confidence in any way. And SIA ranking dropped to 7th in the world in 2006. That's a big ai yo. What the heck happened to the Singaporean airline which made every Singaporean beam with joy when mentioned? -
lol please lah...Originally posted by tankee1981:Bomb threat of something?