Qantas Incident & laptops

**Yep. It's hilarious. Qantas will use *any* excuse, other than admitting that they've been using the cheapest maintenance possible for the last few years. Just ask a Qantas pilot how they feel about the company. It's scary stuff.

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Looks like they are cutting back a bit on compensation too:

I know someone who was on the Qantas flight a few years back that ran off the end of the runway. They got a first class round-the-world ticket as compensation, and for keeping quiet of course. Plus they got a bonus slide down the inflatable stairways.

Dave.

Another way to hide failures in maintenance

since moving much of this offshore the problems have grown massively . Bring the crews back to Australia and see the problems disappear.

So, all the armchair experts have decided, with absolutely no supporting information, that the problem was caused by a maintenance failure.

What a lot of morons. Go on - deny it.

**It's a fair bet. Qantas have cut corners WRT aircraft maintenance. Ask a Qantas pilot. They'll tell how bad things are.

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The wild speculation, so far, includes - pilot error, computer malfunction, CAT, electronic interference from laptops being used by passengers, maintenance failure. The plane is apparently not damaged. Some passengers are, mainly because they didn't have their seat-belts fastened, or were hit by un-seatbelted passengers.

Which of your three testicles will you bet on your guess in that fair bet?

Speculation now also includes atmospheric disruption due to the baby asteroid that entered the atmosphere toward Africa.

I'll start believing there's a real problem when the pilots start wearing parachutes.

I have often thought that one should be disabling, or switching off wireless networks during flights. Mind you, I have never found a network in flight.

Rumour file on 3AW today, Qantas will be collecting electronic items before all flights. I doubt that they could do that, may be more practical to disallow use of these items during flights.

Cheers Don...

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You know full well that this is not speculation, and that it was an alien space-craft.

And make sure it's one of the new hacker-proof ones:

Dave.

Watch out for your pacemaker...

At the end of August I flew Emirates to Europe and they were advertising that soon they would offer in flight net access and mobile phone support via satellite.

Now my question is "If these planes are so susceptible to all this electronic radiation then why would they install wireless networks on their planes?" Also, do Emirates and Qantas buy different planes? No they don't.

Cheers TT

Good, they can stow my entire bag for me then. I travel tech heavy, and usually just throw a few clothes into the laptop case if it's going to be a short trip. The rest are assorted attachments, peripherals, whatnot etc.

I've always wondered why they want me to take out the laptop itself, when I have a huge array of other electronic shit in the bag too.

Once on the plane, and they ask what electronic shit I have, I just hand them my entire bag. It's got to be easier than emptying the thing out.

Where are they going to put all my shit?

The overhead compartment where I was going to put it in the first place?

Or are they collecting before boarding, where they stow with normal luggage? So they're liable when laptops start coming back bent in half because the baggage handlers threw it in frustration because they didn't find a camel head?

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Because it's not a problem, never has been. And technical people who know don't get to make the decisions, ever. It's easier to ban something than allow it. Same reason why they still put "turn off your mobile phone" warning stickers on petrol pumps.

Dave.

luggage?

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Liable? Good luck trying to actually get compensation! Hope you have (and can afford) a good lawyer.

MrT.

I have just come back from Europe and at Istanbul airport for the first time ever I saw that laptops were not only scanned/checked separately *BUT* we were made to actually turn them on to prove they were an operational laptop! I have never seen this before.

Talk about congestion then! All these people at the end of the queue waiting while these bloody things shut down again. Oh and putting their shoes and socks back on, and putting their mobile phones away etc, etc :-( I felt very safe though :-)

BTW it was my daughter's laptop that was checked and my bag had in it rechargers, mobile phone, cameras x 2, wallet, hat, sunnies, pens, note books, Creative Zen Touch, Sensheiser noise cancelling headphones etc, etc...... Oh and a 500ml bottle of water they allowed through to the plane. Now that I thought was strange. Perhaps I just don't look like a terrorist I guess ;-)

Cheers TT

Perhaps I should have made it clearer it was a rhetorical question ;-) Also has it ever occurred to anyone that the actual plane has some quite powerful radars, radio beacons and transmitters of it's own and these seemingly don't hinder the planes operation at all. Oh and throw in an array of microwave ovens, DVD and other media players, sat-navs and other sundry electronic devices. Not to mention they also regularly get hit by lightening while flying around and yet a pissy little no watt laptop will cause it to crash?!!!! Yes, it's a joke.

I loved the Myth Busters one where they tested that - and failed.

Cheers TT

Did they finally come back for Phil? ;-)

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