06-11-2010, 06:38 AM
Mark Stapleton Wrote:Don't know whether its the RR engines or the fact that Qantas has been farming out their maintenance but a lower dividend for avaricious shareholders is a greater disaster that a plane crash, apparently.
Qantas is surely the flukiest airline in aviation history. I think they've had half a dozen mid flight emegencies in the last few years but still not a single fatality recorded against their name.
That's a proud boast but I wouldn't fly Qantas right now. The laws of probability would make me too uncomfortable.
Even given your statement that they've had other engine problems, the odds of that happening on consecutive days [or with one day in between] are just too high to be chance....someone or something happened - I don't claim to know what. The only non-conspiratorial thing that comes to mind is just horrible maintenance, gone especially bad this week...but even that seems unlikely to me. The first engine explosion could have killed all aboard. The second event seems to have been much less serious....at least as reported thus far. Rolls-Royce engines are considered as top notch.
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