6thfreedom From Bermuda, joined Sep 2004, 3265 posts, RR: 22 Reply 2, posted (4 years 7 months 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 10228 times:
Quoting EBGflyer (Reply 1): Would u care to elaborate? What happened? Hit by a golf ball? Hole in one?
Qantas B744 SYD-BKK-LHR slid off the end of the runway at BKK in heavy run.
Landed long and hot, and technically should have done a fly around.
Aircraft was close to being a right off, but QF paid $100M to do the salvage work so it would not be recorded as a hull loss.
Dalavia From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 397 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (4 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 10065 times:
I was in transit at BKK on that day. I had flown in from RGN and was scheduled to join the QF flight in question to LHR.
I saw VH-OJH coming in (dutifully noting the registration), and I remember thinking that it was delaying touchdown more than most other flights, leaving itself only a shorter than average length of runway. I did see the 744 touchdown (just) before it continued on, out of sight to me.
Then there was a l-o-n-g wait. No calls for boarding, no announcements of a delay, just nothing. Questions to the ground staff simply suggested there would be a bit of a delay.
After almost two hours, some passenger names were announced over the PA system, asking them to go to the service desk. My name was one of those mentioned.
Without any reason being given we were told that we had been re-booked on a TG flight to LHR instead.
It was only after we had arrived in London that we heard the reason for the change.
Richierich From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 4022 posts, RR: 6 Reply 4, posted (4 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 9732 times:
Hard to believe that this happened 9 years ago... this crash comes up so often on a.net you would have thought it was last year!!!
NA From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9597 posts, RR: 10 Reply 5, posted (4 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 9681 times:
This incident/accident is proof of the quality of the Boeing repair workmanship. VH-OJH has been flying happily ever after and there were no reports that it might be bugged by problems since.
Quoting 6thfreedom (Reply 2): Aircraft was close to being a right off, but QF paid $100M to do the salvage work so it would not be recorded as a hull loss.
I doubt if the repair costs would have exceeded the airframes value that it would have been done. Maybe it was even, but surely no airline would pay a, lets say, two digit million extra on top of the insurance money to get it fixed. VH-OJH was 7 or 8 years old when it happened. I assume that it was still worth about 50%-60% of its aquisition price at that time, which would have about equalled the 100 million (rumoured) repair cost.
ClassicLover From Ireland, joined Mar 2004, 4517 posts, RR: 26 Reply 6, posted (4 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 9582 times:
Quoting 6thfreedom (Reply 2): but QF paid $100M to do the salvage work so it would not be recorded as a hull loss.
Incorrect, 100% incorrect and I will repeat this until I am blue in the face.
If it was cheaper to write off, the insurance company would have done so - look at the BA 777 for example. It is not QF who decides this, it's the cost of the repair in relation to the value of the airframe.
Quoting NA (Reply 5): I doubt if the repair costs would have exceeded the airframes value that it would have been done. Maybe it was even, but surely no airline would pay a, lets say, two digit million extra on top of the insurance money to get it fixed. VH-OJH was 7 or 8 years old when it happened. I assume that it was still worth about 50%-60% of its aquisition price at that time, which would have about equalled the 100 million (rumoured) repair cost.
Correct, the $A100 million was pure media speculation from some "experts". The figure was never that much.
I do quite enjoy a spot of flying - more so when it's not in Economy!
WingedMigrator From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 2024 posts, RR: 57 Reply 7, posted (4 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 9508 times:
Quoting ClassicLover (Reply 6): If it was cheaper to write off, the insurance company would have done so
Only if QF filed a claim.
There is a rather comical picture of the aircraft, with the upper deck emergency slide deployed horizontally onto the top of a tree. Good thing that nobody got hurt so we can chuckle about that one.
Which one presumes they did, as it wasn't mentioned in the annual accounts that they had to pay out for the BKK incident, which it would have been as it's a listed company.
I do quite enjoy a spot of flying - more so when it's not in Economy!
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7335 posts, RR: 52 Reply 9, posted (4 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 9389 times:
6thfreedom From Bermuda, joined Sep 2004, 3265 posts, RR: 22 Reply 10, posted (4 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 9024 times:
Quoting ClassicLover (Reply 6): Quoting 6thfreedom (Reply 2):
but QF paid $100M to do the salvage work so it would not be recorded as a hull loss.
Incorrect, 100% incorrect and I will repeat this until I am blue in the face.
If it was cheaper to write off, the insurance company would have done so - look at the BA 777 for example. It is not QF who decides this, it's the cost of the repair in relation to the value of the airframe.
I would dare say that it was borderline at best.
Qantas is a large and influential company, and I'm sure the insurer's would not want to lose their business.
Given the Qantas reputation, I think a hull loss would have cost the company more than $100M..
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