Qantas Flight 72
| Qantas Flight 72 | |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Failure of the autopilot with double pitchdown |
| place |
Indian Ocean 154 km west of the Learmonth 21.9227 ° S , 112.4983 ° O |
| date | October 7, 2008 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 315 |
| Injured | 119 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Airbus A330 -303 |
| operator | Qantas |
| Mark | VH-QPA |
| Departure airport | Singapore (SIN / WSSS ) |
| Destination airport |
Perth (PER / YPPH ) Emergency landing: Learmonth ( LEA / YPLM ) |
| Passengers | 303 |
| crew | 12 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On Qantas Airways' flight 72 , an Airbus A330 was on the flight from Singapore to Perth on October 7, 2008 when it unexpectedly fell into a dive at an altitude of around 11,300 meters. Unbelted passengers hit the ceiling of the aircraft with full force. Of the 303 passengers and 12 crew members, at least 119 people were injured, 12 of them seriously injured.
The captain managed to make an emergency landing at the airport of RAAF Base Learmonth of the Royal Australian Air Force . Australian investigators found that similar situations, but with minor consequences, occurred with the same aircraft at a similar location, and re-enacted the flight for a test, but without result. They recognized a vague anomaly in the software that could explain the many error messages the pilots had received.
Web links
- Final report AO-2008-070 of the ATSB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://reports.aviation-safety.net/2008/20081007-0_A333_VH-QPA.pdf page 81
- ↑ https://reports.aviation-safety.net/2008/20081007-0_A333_VH-QPA.pdf page 8
- ↑ Accident report A330-300 VH-QPA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 18, 2019.