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Friday, 05 December 2008

Phones, laptops didn’t cause Qantas drop

10/10/2008 12:08:00 PM.  | John Barrington
Interference from lap tops and mobile phones has been all but ruled out as the cause of Qantas mid air emergency on Tuesday.

74 passengers and crew were injured when a Qantas Airbus A330-300 from Singapore to Perth made two dramatic dives mid-flight, dropping hundreds of metres in seconds.

Investigations into the incident are ongoing, with a search of the aircraft revealing extensive damage from human bodies inside the cabin.

A glitch in the aircraft auto pilot and computer systems is said to be the most likely cause.

Julian Walsh from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says it appears laptops and mobile phones are not to blame.

“There is no evidence at this stage to indicate that the use of portable electronic devices by passengers, contributed to the event.”

Interviews will be carried out with passengers, while data from the aircraft is still being collected.

COMMENTS

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

There was an electronics knowledgeable guy being interviewed that says with the binary number system being the basics of computer control, it could be a very random so infrequent aligning of signals and interference that it would be impossible to duplicate cicumstances, but he did give an example of a person once taking a photo of an aircraft already landed and blip, out went all the cabin electronics, so wonder hpow many planes will go down with no known cause until.........!!!!

Posted by: Neville Simms, Sydney

 
 

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