Quantas Airways engine drama, manufacturing defect

[canadajobsonline]

So what do you all think about the Quantas engine drama from a few months ago?

According to new reports an old-fashioned manufacturing defect appears to have caused the explosive engine failure..

[alpha1]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/world ... ire&st=cse

"The crew received 17 notifications of malfunctions, most of which would be considered a major event on their own."

[Lowjack]

EXCLUSIVE – Qantas QF32 flight from the cockpit

Added on 08 December 2010 by Tim Robinson

On 4 November Qantas flight QF32, an Airbus A380 outbound from Singapore, ran into serious problems when a turbine on its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine suffered an uncontained failure. We caught up with one of the five pilots onboard, who describes how the crew professionally dealt with the incident, the sequence of events, and how the most dangerous period was after they had landed:

http://www.aerosocietychannel.com/aeros ... e-cockpit/

[Bushav8er]

Interesting read.

I like this part:

SChan: Interesting you mention airmanship. As a training/check captain are you personally worried about the next generation of pilots who may be fixated with the glass cockpits?

DE: Absolutely. Nothing will replace experience. In a legacy airline like Qantas where we have the luxury, if you like, of very experienced pilots (the most junior pilot to the most senior all have extensive backgrounds in aviation – whether it be military or general aviation). That can’t be replaced.

Seems to follow that "PC12 Upgrade..." thread