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Technical occurrences for two Qantas airplanes. Crews and passengers unhurt

Sydney, Australia - Two changes of direction to taking-off airport, for a failure to flaps and for collapse of a windshield

Two technical problems today that Qantas faced and reported. The first one occurred to a A-380 airplane while it was in flight from Sydney to Dallas forcing the captain to divert route to departing airport. The second interested a B-747/400 returned also this one on the taking off airport, Sydney, rather than to continue towards Johannesburg as planned, due to a problem to the windshield. The Australian...

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Rome, Italy, 08/04/2017 18:10
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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