Bangkok: Qantas 747 engine drank a bit too much yesterday...

[Stratofreighter]

...and it could become a bit expensive then...

http://avherald.com/h?article=436cae28&opt=0

Incident: Qantas B744 near Bangkok on Jan 25th 2011, engine consumed too much fuel

By Simon Hradecky, created Wednesday, Jan 26th 2011 08:48Z, last updated Wednesday, Jan 26th 2011 08:48Z

A Qantas Boeing 747-400, registration VH-OJT performing flight QF-2 from Bangkok (Thailand) to Sydney,NS (Australia) with 325 passengers,

was about 30 minutes into the flight when the crew observed one of the engines (RB211) consumed too much fuel.

The crew reduced the engine's thrust and returned to Bangkok for a safe landing about 75 minutes after departure.

Qantas said, one of the engines began consuming fuel more quickly than normal.

A replacement engine has been dispatched to Bangkok, no replacement aircraft is available in Bangkok.

The passengers were taken to hotels, those needing to reach Sydney urgently are being rebooked onto other airlines depending availability.

A aircraft is estimated to reach Sydney with a delay of 34 hours.

[Optimus]

Woohoo! Let's jump on the Australian media-bandwagon and start bashing Qantas for every common occurence of a technical error...

Kees

[evhest]

Let's blame Dustin Hoffman!

[Stratofreighter]

Yes, it's Qantas again. But yes, the company operating the aircraft wasn't the reason I posted this...

For "Qantas-bashing" I refer to "Tattle Lounge"...

[Key]

Sorry, but this every-day occurence is definitely not what we set up Civil News for. Hence moved.

Erik

[Erik_7Xi]

Here in Aus/NZ, Qantas is being followed very closely as they are having a lot of issues these days - exploding engine on the A380, a 747 returning with engine problems, 747 losing a panel/door inflight... twice, 737 aborting flight due to vibration issues, 737 dropping 20.000 ft after losing cabin pressure, etc.

[Diarto]

Similar things happen to airlines all over the world at a daily basis, where are the media!?