Comments on: The story of flight QF29(D)… http://james.manners.net.au/2006/09/10/the-story-of-flight-qf29d%e2%80%a6/ Stories, Thoughts, Observations... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:51:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: David http://james.manners.net.au/2006/09/10/the-story-of-flight-qf29d%e2%80%a6/#comment-10197 David Fri, 30 May 2008 09:42:41 +0000 http://wp.manners.net.au/2006/09/10/the-story-of-flight-qf29d%e2%80%a6/#comment-10197 Hi Mike. I too was on the QF29 flight with the 2 burst tyres and am wondering whether Qantas offered any compensation to you for their 'comedy of errors'? I havent been in touch with them yet but am about to so are just curious as to whether theyve offered anything yet or not. Hi Mike. I too was on the QF29 flight with the 2 burst tyres and am wondering whether Qantas offered any compensation to you for their ‘comedy of errors’? I havent been in touch with them yet but am about to so are just curious as to whether theyve offered anything yet or not.

]]> By: Mike http://james.manners.net.au/2006/09/10/the-story-of-flight-qf29d%e2%80%a6/#comment-8874 Mike Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:24:37 +0000 http://wp.manners.net.au/2006/09/10/the-story-of-flight-qf29d%e2%80%a6/#comment-8874 What is it with ill people being removed from a flight, followed by engineering probs on flight QF29D (QF29 - delayed)? We just got home yesterday from a similar situation, but we got stuck in Hong Kong instead... for 36 hours, in what the head stewardess eventually called a "comedy of errors" as she thanked us for our patience. We had a man leave his seat and rush forwards before collapsing, just before take off! Very scary in itself. He had to leave the plane on health grounds, so we headed back to terminal. We then burst 2 tyres immediately before takeoff which left us stranded until fixed enough for us to taxi back to terminal. 6 hours stuck on plane going nowhere. They put us in a hotel which ended up being another 26 hours in Hong Kong. Back on the plane the next day, now 34 hours late, we noticed fuel dripping from wing... watching men attempt to catch it in buckets in the wind! Needless to say there was a BIG puddle of it on the ground! Then when they drained the leaking tank, one of the doors wouldn't "arm"... so they got the engineers on the make it shut. Then China wouldn't agree to let us take off if we were called "flight QF29" (as there was still the QF29 from the day after ours in the air over europe). Russia however wouldn't let us pass through if we WEREN'T called flight QF29. More delay. Finally take off over 36 hours late from Hong Kong, for a very turbulent flight home which was very scary having lost confidence in the plane! Total travel time door to door (only 1 hour drive from Heathrow), about 66 hours Melbourne to London! Anyone beat that? What is it with ill people being removed from a flight, followed by engineering probs on flight QF29D (QF29 - delayed)?

We just got home yesterday from a similar situation, but we got stuck in Hong Kong instead… for 36 hours, in what the head stewardess eventually called a “comedy of errors” as she thanked us for our patience.

We had a man leave his seat and rush forwards before collapsing, just before take off! Very scary in itself. He had to leave the plane on health grounds, so we headed back to terminal.

We then burst 2 tyres immediately before takeoff which left us stranded until fixed enough for us to taxi back to terminal. 6 hours stuck on plane going nowhere.

They put us in a hotel which ended up being another 26 hours in Hong Kong.
Back on the plane the next day, now 34 hours late, we noticed fuel dripping from wing… watching men attempt to catch it in buckets in the wind! Needless to say there was a BIG puddle of it on the ground!

Then when they drained the leaking tank, one of the doors wouldn’t “arm”… so they got the engineers on the make it shut.

Then China wouldn’t agree to let us take off if we were called “flight QF29″ (as there was still the QF29 from the day after ours in the air over europe). Russia however wouldn’t let us pass through if we WEREN’T called flight QF29. More delay.

Finally take off over 36 hours late from Hong Kong, for a very turbulent flight home which was very scary having lost confidence in the plane!

Total travel time door to door (only 1 hour drive from Heathrow), about 66 hours Melbourne to London!

Anyone beat that?

]]> By: Amie http://james.manners.net.au/2006/09/10/the-story-of-flight-qf29d%e2%80%a6/#comment-16 Amie Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:25:00 +0000 http://wp.manners.net.au/2006/09/10/the-story-of-flight-qf29d%e2%80%a6/#comment-16 Holy cow... 51 hours? You've just beat my best time for that distance by 8 hours, and I thought mine was impressive! You poor things... Holy cow… 51 hours? You’ve just beat my best time for that distance by 8 hours, and I thought mine was impressive! You poor things…

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