REX Flight forced into Emergency Landing after losing Propeller

REX Flight forced into Emergency Landing after losing Propeller

A Regional Express flight to Sydney has been forced to make an emergency landing after losing one of its propellers mid-flight. Flight ZL768 from Albury landed safely at Sydney Airport just after midday 
and the 16 passengers and three crew members on board were not injured.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has assigned three investigators to look into the circumstances surrounding the incident and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority is seeking an urgent briefing from the 
company.They want to work out whether this could be a potential defect in all SAAB 340B aircraft or just this one in particular. Regional Express is also investigating.
The ABC understands the aircraft was on approach and lost the propeller at approximately 6,000 feet. The propeller has not been found and will be a crucial piece of evidence in the investigation.
Air traffic control audio logs reveal that after realising the plane had lost a propeller, pilots made a PAN call — which signifies urgency but is not a mayday."The prop has just fallen off the aircraft and standby 
for further instructions," the flight deck coolly reports to air traffic controllers.
"REX768 we've just had uncommanded engine operations and our propeller has just sheared off," a man on the flight deck told controllers.We've got normal controls, still be able to fly would require 1-6 right 
and we should be able to conduct a precautionary landing.At this point, controllers move to delay other flights."


#REX_Flight_ZL768
#SAAB_340B_Aircraft
#Australian_Transport_Safety_Bureau
#Propeller_Defect
Sanghmitra Wankhade
B.E(CS), MBA(Marketing) IIM Rohtak
Aerosoft Corp
Management Trainee

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Aviation Fuel sniffing prompts Warning in Australia.

Image
Aviation Fuel sniffing prompts Warning in Australia .  Australian Northern Territory Australian health officials have warned of a "serious" incidence of children inhaling Aviation fuel in the Northern Territory.  Security camera footage shows children breaking into the remote Elcho Island Airport and siphoning fuel from planes. Petrol sniffing is not a new challenge to hit remote communities, but Aviation fuel is even more dangerous because it contains lead, local officials  aid. Lead exposure can badly damage the brain and nervous system.   Health officials believe more than 100 youths - one as young as seven - have inhaled the fuel on Elcho Island and a nearby area since March last year. "Our kids are ending up in hospital by getting infected by chemicals, which is bad for them," one Aboriginal elder, John Gurrumgurrum Burarrwanga, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. #Aviation_English_News_ Readers_Positions  #E...
Read more

To Avoid China Backlash, India Turns Down This Request From Australia

Image
To Avoid China Backlash, India Turns Down This Request From Australia China Backlash, India Turns Australiaand Japan Four officials from India, Australia and Japan told Reuters that India blocked the proposal and suggested that Canberra send officers to watch the exercises in the Bay of Bengal from the decks of the three participating countries' warships, instead.  Both the United States and Japan supported the idea of involving Australia, seeing it as a natural partner in the effort to balance China's growing might, the four officials said. But Delhi is worried that China will step up activities in the Indian Ocean where it is building infrastructure inIndia's anxiety about being encircled, according to Reuters' sources who remained unnamed. Indian navy officials say there have been at least six submarine deployments by China in the Indian Ocean since 2013 and that Chinese submarines have been docking in Sri Lanka and its long-time ally Pa...
Read more

Melbourne Airplane crash Company had a'near miss'history.

Image
Melbourne Airplane crash Company had a'near miss'history. Investigations leading to the cause of fatal airplane crash at a shopping mall near Melbourne's Essendon Airport revealed a near miss involving the same Charter company. The Airplane had crashed into the DFO shopping centre in Melbourne. Four American tourists and Pilot Max Quartermain were killed when their Beechcraft B200 Super King Air experienced engine failure soon after take-off from Essendon Airport on Tuesday. The flight was headed for King Island off Tasmania's north coast, crashed into the DFO shopping centre and flames engulfed the debris. The ABC reports Mr Quartermain was under investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) after his Airplane, with a call signal VH-OWN, came within 100m of another aircraft in bad weather at Mt Hotham in September 2015. An investigation summary reported the Airplane had "tracking difficulties" on approach to Mt Hoth...
Read more