a qantas flight boeing 737-800 registration vh xzm performing flight qf-1206 on tuesday
august 9th from perth had to have an emergency diversion after being struck by lightning the
plane left the capital of western australia at 6 48 am and was scheduled to arrive in port headland
at 8 55 a.m but was forced to make an emergency landing in today's video we're going to talk about
three incidents in three days for qantas boeing 737 800s so without any further ado let's begin
flight qf-1206 landed at karata airport at 9 17 am after the temporary release it was reportedly
struck by lightning a spokesperson told it had to be diverted for an engineering check
passengers have since been diverted onto another flight aircraft are designed to withstand and
fly safely when struck by lightning but it's a policy that they get inspected at their arrival
port after a strike at no point was the safety of the flight compromised the passengers were
then transitioned to another flight from karata to port hedland scheduled to arrive after midday
qantas confirmed the aircraft is being inspected by engineers after the incident
karata has engineering support whereas headland doesn't so they would have needed to get
engineering to headland to inspect before being able to continue by the sounds of it the damage
was severe enough to keep it on the ground in karata upstream aviation owner tim collins said
it wasn't unusual for lightning to strike an aircraft but it was rare for a plane to divert
its course in response aircraft are built in such a way that when lightning strikes an aircraft
it passes through the structure of an aircraft and disappears he said it doesn't harm anyone
inside it doesn't generally harm the aircraft and discharges itself back into the atmosphere
often aircraft is struck and pilots don't even know that they've been struck because often you
don't see anything or feel anything holland set a cautionary diversion due to light in western
australia and typically only occurred a few times a year engineers will assess the aircraft
and it's unlikely they'll find any damage at all and will turn the aircraft to service he said
the incident followed a deluge of rain overnight in perth and other parts of western australia
another qantas boeing 737-800 registration vh xzh performing flight qf-186 from queenstown new
zealand to brisbane ql australia was climbing out of queenstown's runway 05 when the crew needed to
shut the left-hand engine cfm 56 down stopped the climb at fl 200 and decided to divert to
christchurch new zealand where the aircraft landed safely on runway 20 about 65 minutes
after departure a replacement boeing 737-800 registration vhxzj positioned from sydney and as
australia to christchurch continue the flight and reach brisbane with a delay of 22.5 hours rather
than returning to queenstown the jet diverted to christchurch where it remains nearly 48 hours
later the other boeing 737 was ready for takeoff when air traffic controllers noticed smokes
and flames coming from the engine more than 100 passengers were on board the boeing 737 preparing
to fly from sydney to nomia the qf-91 flight was set to take off at 7 40 am when an emergency radio
call stopped it in its tracks the pad has followed procedure and shut down the engine as a precaution
after being alerted by the control tower while taxiing said a spokesperson for quantas
there was no warning light in the cockpit and no sign of fire when the engine was shut down
the plane safely returned to the terminal and the incident was investigated by engineers
the plane has since been cleared to return to service no injuries have been reported
and the passengers are being safely transferred onto another flight the 737-800 is a member of the
b-737 family of aircraft the boeing 737-800 is the backbone of the qantas domestic fleet and economy
classes where most passengers sit the qantas 737 800 aircraft have three to three seating in their
162-seat economy cabin the seat pitch is 30 inches and the width is 17.2 inches rows 4 13 and 14 have
extra legroom up to 38 inches the extra wriggle room makes for a far nicer flight qantas requires
its crew and passengers to require masks on board except when eating and drinking now that we've
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