Saturday, November 6, 2010

Pilot Having A String Of Bad Luck

Earlier this week, a Qantas jumbo jet had it's engine explode in mid-air soon after taking off from Singapore.
Today, the same pilot was at the helm of a smaller jet, a 747, when minutes after taking off from Singapore, it developed engine problems again and had to return to the airport.
From AOL News: The hero pilot and cabin crew involved in a dramatic jet failure this week were forced to return to Singapore again yesterday after a second Qantas flight was hit by engine trouble.
Passengers screamed and air crew shouted for them to adopt the crash position after flames or sparks were seen coming from the engine of a Qantas flight leaving Singapore airport with 431 passengers and crew onboard.
After calmly landing an A380 superjet that experienced a dramatic mid-air explosion earlier this week, Captain Richard de Crespigny again failed to travel to Sydney yesterday, as he and his cabin crew witnessed a second Qantas explosion, this time as passengers.

The 747 jumbo ran into trouble 20 minutes after take-off on its way to Sydney when passengers heard a loud bang and saw flames or sparks coming from an engine.
QF6 immediately returned to Singapore airport and made a safe landing.
Captain de Crespigny and the cabin crew from the superjet involved in the first engine failure were travelling as passengers on the 747 aircraft, making their second attempt to fly to Sydney.
It is believed that some of the passengers from the superjet were also on the jumbo jet.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327147/Passengers-scream-second-Qantas-jet-engine-trouble.html#ixzz14Yn8eh1c
I think if they took a ship back to Sydney, it would have been faster for the pilot, crew and some passengers.
I am sure the pilot and crew are highly skilled and this is just a bunch of bad luck, but I would kind of scared to be flying with him right about now.

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