I was on the flight and took the picture referenced as "A passenger took this photo in flight, showing turbine fragment exit holes in the upper surface of the wing. (ATSB)"
Forced myself on another A380 flight shortly after so I won't lose faith in it's engineering safety.
Wow. I was (long ago!) in an engine fire emergency landing situation and though I did take a connecting flight to get home I didn’t fly for a while afterwards. Psychologically, your choice was probably the smarter one.
- The main one was that I had a flight from Vancouver to Victoria and the weather was too bad for the helicopter to fly. So we took a prop. On takeoff, some cross-wind hit the plane and we tipped over. My colleague and I who were sitting across from each other thought that was it.
- The other one was my plane was reported crashed when I was visiting my parents for some holiday or other. I got panicked call on drive back from airport.
> On takeoff, some cross-wind hit the plane and we tipped over.
I had a near tip-over coming out of a DIA years ago. DIA gets very windy. We were nearing speed to lift off and a gust of cross wind hit the plane. Looking out the window I thought for sure the wing was going to hit the ground, but in that moment the pilot seemed to shift from a standard take off to something that felt much more vertical. Once we were airborne the flight attendant came by who looked a little shaken and offered me a free drink.
Thankfully yes! I lived in Singapore at the time and thought... my goodness. It's a small island. If you end up afraid of flying, what do you do!?
Kudos to the Qantas crew on board as well as Captain de Crespigny and his co-pilots and two check captains. We happened to have a lot of experienced pilot power on board.
