Aviation
Qantas flight QF30 cabin video
An interesting video taken from a passenger of the Qantas QF30 flight was released. The footage was taken after the B747-438 levelled off at 10.000 feet above the sea in bound to Manila airport. The […]
Month: July 2008
Aviation
Qantas decompression (QF30 emergency landing follow up)
In order to investigate the causes of the large hole that compelled the QF30 to perform an emergency landing in Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) sent 4 investigators to […]
Aviation
Qantas B747-438 emergency landing
A Qantas Boeing 747-438, with 346 passengers and 19 crew members, flying from Hong Kong to Melbourne (it was a London – Melbourne flight with a stop in HKG), had to divert to Manila shortly […]
Aviation
Rome seaplane station's project (and WWII anti-raid bunker)
In April, I’ve had the opportunity to attend an interesting exhibition held in Rome that dealt with the project of the Magliana water airport. The exhibition, whose title was “L’aeroporto che non c’è” (whose translation […]
Aviation
Close up view of the cockpit of the NH90 before it crashed into the Bracciano Lake
Giovanni Maduli, one of my co-workers, sent me the following picture he took at Bracciano a few minutes before the NH90 EI-202 crashed into the Bracciano Lake causing the death of Capt. Fornassi. The picture […]