Qantas Struggles with yet another Mid air Scare

The Australian Flying Kangaroo, Qantas Airline (QF) is making headlines yet again when today a flight from Adelaide to Melbourne experienced cabin depressurization.

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Although, if it was any other airline, this could have been a very minor event and would have gotten only a little space in the Aviation news however, since Qantas is already struggling to wipe off the last year’s stigma to its reputation at hand of midair engine troubles, the carrier is said to have been effected badly from this “non emergency” situation.

The head of the school of Aviation at the University of New South Wales Australia, Professor Jason Middleton has also defined this incident as a ‘non emergency situation’ and stated that there was never any risk to the passengers.

He added: “This is not an emergency in the sense that anyone anyone’s life was ever at risk, a very standard procedure to an airport,” Also, he said “It’s not an unsafe operation at all – to get aeroplanes that quite comfortably fly at 10,000 feet to proceed to their destination and at that location the problems can be checked out.”

Qantas Airline (QF) offers direct flights to Sydney and many other destinations in Australia. It is the prime carrier of the country, Australia. Although, Qantas had a shaky start of the year 2011 but considering the high standard of…Read more

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