A great yarn on today's episode of Conversations with Richard Fidler on
local AM radio. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/local/br...2_14085393.mp3
Qantas pilot Richard de Crespigny tells the story of what he and
his crew went through after multiple redundancy failures on an A380.
I read his book QF32 - amazing stuff. The entire crew were calm under pressure!!
The bit that blew my mind was 900 degree brakes discs with fuel pouring out of the wing tanks and the whole thing not blowing up. I'm not surprised there are psychological consequences for those who were aboard.
Pity the cockpit voice recording was lost - according to the book it only records X minutes before the last engine is shut down, which took several hours. It took several days for the aircraft to be deemed "safe". Would have been an amazing learning tool for crisis resource management.
DT
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Very good to listen to what they went through....especially about the ' hot ' brakes.
Slightly off topic here....Whilst at RAAF Amberley in the 70's..... we had one come in ...and on landing...both main wheels ' blew ' on touchdown ...one after the other.
2 massive ' bangs ' were heard by everyone on Base when it occurred....once the Aircraft was stationary .....the ' Disc Brake Calipers ' were at the point of being ' white hot ' ...they were still ' glowing ' 15minutes after the event....and of course 3 fire Tenders were on hand.
It was an excellent story to on air crash investigations..the pilots were so calm and they put there heads together to make the wright decisions!!
The people at qantas we're getting failures and errors from the plane and at one stage thought that they had lost it,just goes to show tech knowledge and computers ain't always right.
