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Hero QF32 pilot who saved 440 passengers when engine exploded in mid-air reveals how "picture-book day" turned to terror
A hero Qantas pilot who saved 440 passengers when his superjumbo's engine exploded in mid-air has revealed how a "picture-book" day turned to terror. Captain Richard de Crespigny was about to turn off the seatbelt sign on Flight QF32 when he heard a "relatively small" boom just four minutes after takeoff. A second later, he heard an enormous boom that was unlike anything he'd ever heard before - and suddenly found himself in a life-or-death emergency. (www.mirror.co.uk) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Я изумлен.Very impressed.
The same day that happened I booked a flight to Heathrow from Melbourne on and A380, deliberately, BECAUSE I am aware of Richard de Crespigny as the head pilot of Qantas. The day we flew out the flight was delayed, and de Crespigny came to the boarding lounge and told us one engine had an oil leak, the same one that caused the explosion! He said he would fly with us to Singapore to keep an eye on the repairs, which took over three hours. Not a problem, and it was actually the first airplane flight for both me and my wife, but we had confidence in Qantas.
Would've liked to have been told early in this story - like, in the first sentence, not a full third of the way into the story - that this event happened 8 years ago. I'm not of the aviation world, so I thought it was new news, not old news.
Hello world!...have an awesome weekend everyone.
He has written another book.
Old news. Happened years ago and a book QF32 was written at the time. A great read. The plane was almost uncontrollable after the incident as some of the control inputs were lost and fuel was spewing out the wing. The plane has since been repaired and returned to service.