Two Qantas flights delay

Another trouble looms for Qantas when many of its international flights experienced engine trouble and wing defects on Good Friday.A spokesperson of Qantas disclosed that 386 passengers bound for Los Angeles waited for hours at Brisbane International Airport due to a wiring fault in the engine Boeing 707. The flight was rescheduled at 10am the following day.

Qantas said its engineers are not to blame for the delay.On the same day, another flight was also delayed for five hours in Perth after engineers discovered a wing flap defect. A replacement was installed and the airplane left for Brisbane at 1pm.A series of incidents occurred this week on Qantas planes.Last Wednesday was one of them as the brakes on an A389 airbus locked up itself and caused two tires to blow up as it landed in Sydney after arriving from Singapore on Wednesday night. The airbus that carried 244 passengers were transferred by bus as it could not move from the runway.

Witnesses revealed they saw flames and sparks; and heard noise just like a cannon fire as the tires of the airbus broke out.Also on Tuesday, an engine problem occurred in a Qantas 747 jumbo jet 45 minutes after its take off. The same jet that carried 414 people bound for Singapore, was forced to fly back to Sydney. The aircraft safely landed after dumping fuel.David Epstein of Qantas said the two incidents are an unfortunate coincidence, but most not be taken seriously.

We don't think that there will be any need for any extraordinary investigations in either of these incidents because it appears the circumstances of them are relatively uncomplicated and do not represent any issues or concerns of our safety management system, he said.The airline is currently under scrutiny as the Civil Aviation Safety Authority probes the allegations made by the Association of Professional Engineers regarding unsafe work practices.Epstein rebukes allegations as false and assures the agency of Qantas maintaining its highest safety standards.
CASA will monitor Qantas and will also tackle some accusations that the airlines is hiding engineering authorization by the managers, including safety incidents dating back to February.
Epstein believes that CASA's inspection is only a normal routine and not a surveillance check in response to the incident.