Unlucky: 3 Incidents In 3 Days For Qantas Boeing 737-800s 

Each incident seemed to be handled correctly judging by the information given

Being an Aussie myself, it makes me smile hearing "request fireries" (Aussie slang for firefighters) 👍

Qantas handled it professionally and opted for safety in all 3 of the cases.

The first one isn’t the plane’s fault. Lightning strikes happen. Worked in Aviation as a ground staff. Seen A380s and A350s been delay as the engineers check the plane after a lightning strike. It’s nothing new. Just a safety precaution.

There's really only one possible cause. Someone at Qantas's corporate office must have created a sign to show how many days since an accident.

I'm flying Qantas next week and these events don't really bother me because Qantas still has one of the best safety records in the history of aviation.

bad luck always comes in 3's....but it was all a fluke as far as i'm concerned since Qantas has one of the best safety records in all of aviation and will continue to do so in my own opinion.

@0:45 Nice Lighting Effect👌

These incidents are noteworthy even though safety of passengers and crew were not really in doubt. Shows how much passenger air safety has improved over the years. There is usually more awareness of Qantas incidents when there are wage and condition negotiations under way.

3 incidents in 3 days covered in 3 minutes.

Flames coming out of the engine, but we don't know why. Okay, back I to service. This makes me nervous.

I was stuck by lighting a couple days before the port hedland flight, guess it wasn't news worthy because we didn't diivert prior to landing in Perth. For your comments on Port Hedland airport, it has both ATC and full-time fire crews. They only diverted because Karatha has maintenance services.

I'm quite surprised Port Headland airport doesn't have all that infrastructure considering the amount of passengers fly there weekly and stating itself as an international terminal at one stage...

It's weird how the 737 is still keeping it's reputation unlike the dc 10 which's reputation had died very fast

Wow very unlucky for Qantas...

I saw the Queenstown to Brisbane divert to Christchurch

Wow. Not a lucky day indeed for those 3 QF 737-800s

It isn't policy to inspect aircraft after lightning strike it is a maintenance manual requirement as per AMM 05-51-27 unscheduled maintenance. You need to find the entry and exit points of the lightning strike. All damage must be identified and mapped out and corrected before RTS. Any damage around fasteners and rivets must have mandatory NDI and fasteners must be replaced with oversized fasteners. . All avionics must have functional checks done and bonding leads need to be inspected. Flight controls bearings need to be inspected. Static wicks need to be inspected and replaced as per the inspection requirements. There is no airline policy that governs lightning strike its driven purely by the AMM. If no damage is found than the aircraft can be released to service. I have done numerous lightning strike inspections in Brisbane due to our natural weather phenomenon. Lightning strike inspection is extensive and the plane could possibly be grounded for days unless an engineering order is issued for a fly along until permanent repairs can be made.

Nah, just normal aviation issues to me. Planes get struck by lightning routinely which is why they have static wicks on trailing edges of wings to discharge stray current safely. The engine issues could just be growing pains for the 800. I'm sure maintenance crews are working on plans to resolve them.

It was the Brissy Perth flight last week that ran out of fuel that you didnt talk about which was the bigger issue!

I'm glad all incidents just ended up delaying passengers rather than jeopardising their safety

But wait, there's more! QF46 operating from Denpasar to Melbourne on August 14, also operated by a Boeing 737-800, diverted to Adelaide, landing in Adelaide during curfew hours. What was that all about - anyone know?

Pan Pan Pan, we need the Fireies !!!!LOL

Why no music?

All is well, no one hurt, things break. Carry on.

There's black clouds looming over boeing

Qantas used to be pretty good. (Not Singapore, or Emirates good.. but pretty good) CEO Alan Joyce illegally sacked thousand of staff during the pandemic. Qantas has the highest flight delay rate and cancellation rate of any airline in Australia. Getting stuck sleeping on the floor of an airport after your Qantas flight was cancelled and your luggage goes on a 2 week international vacation (without you) is now known as "getting Joyced".

I was on QF1206, and we were struck by lightning on climb out of Perth not on decent into Port Hedland.

I can add no 4 Two weeks ago from 16/8/22 our aircraft from Madang to Port Morsby there was an incident with the escape set on the door to the was a door failure in flight and the aircraft had to do an emergency decent to 10 thousand and an emergency landing.

Oh well no one killed or injured Qantas still has world's best safety record for all their current issues!

Just something that can happen.. nothing to worry about

Time to go Airbus for your narrow bodies, QF, they never get hit by lightning, only Boeings and Airbus engines never fail.

Well we have just had 2 in 2 days on the 737-8 first was engine failure second was the same.

It's about the max 😱 come on people it happens all the time.

I took off from heathrow and plane was struck 3 times immedially at rotation. Awesome

It’s probably the way the engine is design the 737 has a kinda semi circle type whiles others are round one

Are we trying to make the 737NG or Qantas look bad? It's random chance. I don't see any reason for concern. The responses to the incidents were all in the interests of safety, so Qantas should be praised. In the case of diversion to Christchurch, the landing in Queenstown would be unnecessarily challenging on one engine and Christchurch probably has better facilities as well as less challenging approach and departure paths.

There have been more incidents recently. However no lives have been lost on a Boeing aircraft operating within Australia

the third one is weird...hope they get to the bottom of it - it could have been an unmitigated disaster had it not been spotted or the fire started once in the air

The sydney incident was over pretty quick as that 737 flew to perth about 4 hours later no problems. 🤔

As planes have been out of service for a long time and parked up they may not of had the full thorough going over b4 full flights resumed again this could be due to staff engineer and maintenance personnel shortages

Any pilots here? Are lightning-strikes indicative of poor cu-nim avoidance or can strikes occur even when an aircraft is some way distant them? Firies? An Australianism.

As I do not know the duration of the ground time inspection of the airplane that had an engine fire, as a former chief ground engineer I would be reluctant to let that airplane continue to fly with that same engine. .

Alan Joyce is getting rich whilst killing QANTAS. Could be bad luck or could be that Joyce has laid off the experienced QANTAS staff and is left with cheap replacements.

All issues look to have been safely and quickly responded to. Very happy for that!! It is a pity that 90% of AU domestic travel is on 15-20 year old 737's

Like waiting for a bus . Wait for ages and 3 come along together.

Well its not like qantas can stop lightning, also planes are meant to withstand it

Fear mongering for clicks. As an AME I see this kind of stuff happen on the daily to all types of aircraft.

Would have expected Port Headland to have larger airport than Karratha. It has large industrial operations and a large port. From a safety point of view, if aircraft waas already on descent to Port Headland, it would have been safer to continue landing process instead of accelerating back up, reconfigure aircraft for flights and starting brand new landing once near Karratha. (but one could argue that after lighning strike, perhaps they needed time to verify everything was still working before continuing with landing). However, if it diverted to Karratha because they have maintenance facility there, then the diversion is one of convenience, not one of safetty since safety is about the current flight, not thinkking about what to do with aircraft after it has landed.

I know that if any of those incidents happened onboard an aircraft on which I was a passenger, I'd much rather be on a QF aircraft than any other airline.

To be expected Sooner or later will see more as more Boeing plane fly

Dunno why, but Quantas just seems like the type of airline this would happen to 😂

Watching this as I’m up in the air on a 737-800 😂

Anything 737 has felt dubious for a long time. I prefer not to travel on a 737 if I can avoid it!

They need to check it more carefully so it won’t happen again

U can stop Being bashing now QF already got the A320 neo.

I think this kind of incidents are on the rise after som many planes have been i storage and such for a long time now.

Were they Jabbed ?

I fly with qantas every 2 weeks, think that are very safe although there planes are starting to age. Fokker 100's doing a lot of kilometres

under staffed, and ground crew intermittently on strike might be assisting in the recent increase in qantas mechanical issues

i don't get how anyone can trust these roller-stampers again

QANTAS = Quite A Nice Trip Never Again 😉

What is happening with our national airlines.

Then how QF can be the safest airlines?

The 737 is jealous that Qantas is switching to Airbus that’s all

for those that blame Boeing for engine problems, you have to blame Airbus for QF32, AF66, and PW1100/1500g issues. otherwise, you are logically inconsistent and are therefore illogical.

Sacked the best mechanics in the world and outsourced it. Qantas planes are having more incidents all the time and every one is just one closer to their first crash.

Time for them to get rid of those pieces of junk

Tomorrow: Very Unlucky: Four Incidents in Four Days For Qantas Boeing 737-800s

Average day in the office

I think the Gods just hate the 737.

What exactly is the point of this ? Just Qantas bashing !

Omg

I will never fly on this airline now, there planes get no service, is very dangerous airline !!!

hope not...

unlucky

Memo to Qantas Staff. Mr G Almighty is not happy about you loosing his bags!

Qantas is sadly on a steep decline!

I know that jetconnect used to run the flights from new Zealand in Qantas colours I'm guessing that is still the case after covid

So basically stay away from 737-800's

its called a hat-trick

moral of the story: never be an airline based in australia with boeing narrowbodies. I’M KIDDING. aircraft are not to blame.

Only even remotely a story because it’s Qantas any other airline wouldn’t have made news 👍

When you push past engineering limit then boo

Remember when Quantas was the best in the world? The good ol days...

Is 737 a dangerous plane to ride? Will never go with one.

Luckily Qantas has opted for the A220 and A321XLR over the 737 max

What is going on with our airline? I hope the new fleet is better & not so old ' but always they seem to fix it & put their passengers safety first, since covid theyve had disruptions of no fly, lack of staff, although they serously need to rid of that Allan Joyce, he, s paid to much as well other board members & need to pay their workers a fair or above & bonus wages more often. We must keep our airlines flying despite covid . Keep the kangaroo fying.

There was a time when Qantas invested its safety reputation in its pilots and engineers. Now it seems any fool in a car can get an aircraft to stop. Non-technical observers are notoriously unreliable and cannot be relied on to make serviceability judgments on aircraft. The captain was put into a difficult position by the passing of such a message to him. If I were him I would have said ‘thank you very much, I’m taking off anyway’.

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Should switch to A320s

Maybe that’s why they are getting rid of the Boeing 737 and Qantas don’t crash

A group from the kangaroo union wants a higher, advertising, pay rate.

Sounds like a hit piece on Boeing 737-800s. And perhaps misdirected from Quantas Maintenace to Boeing. And the CFM engines are just as prevalent on A320 family planes.

The QANTAS management states that it is caused by the passengers, who are brave enough (or want their life insurance paid out) to trust the QANTAS management.

If its a Boeing , I aint going .

Absolutely nothing to do with LGBTIQ etc rights. Which is refreshing.