A hero Qantas pilot who saved 440 passengers when his superjumbo's engine exploded in mid-air has revealed how a "picture-book" day turned to terror. Captain Richard ...
I HAD been flying for three-and-a-half decades when I boarded Flight QF32. First with the Royal Australian Air Force, to which I had eagerly signed up at 17, then with Australia’s national carrier, ...
Despite the chaos that could have ensued, captain Richard de Crespigny stayed calm and landed the plane, bringing all 469 passengers and crew safely to the tarmac. That was November 4, 2010. Now, with ...
Qantas captain Richard Champion de Crespigny saved a planeload of people with his safe landing of stricken flight QF32 in Singapore, but he couldn't save his career from COVID-19. He's revealed, on ...
The controllability of the Qantas QF32 Airbus A380 when one of its a Rolls-Royce engines disintegrated after taking off from Singapore, was a constant issue for its pilots, according to the ...
"Like a boom" ... Qantas captain Richard de Crespigny reveals the story behind the A380 that suffered an engine explosion in a new book.Reuters It could have been one of the world's worst air ...
Qantas Captain Richard de Crespigny, who was at the helm of the state-of-the-art jet when the explosion occurred, also reveals how he and his crew managed to land his crippled plane as things went ...
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has called on airworthiness authorities to review the findings of its final report on the QF32 accident and possibly tighten cerification standards around ...
Captain Richard de Crespigny, who was in command on the Qantas Airbus A380 which experienced a massive engine disintegration causing severe airframe and systems damage while operating QF32 last ...
Repairs have been completed on a Qantas Airways Airbus A380 that experienced an uncontained engine failure over Singapore in November 2010. The aircraft, registration VH-OQA, will be flown back to ...
This is the most serious incident involving the super-jumbo A380 since it came into service three years ago. It has emerged that there have been some concerns raised about the model of engines used on ...
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