Qantas Flight 72 [SEP] point in time
Qantas Flight 72
Qantas Flight 72 (QF72) is a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport. On 7 October 2008 the flight made an emergency landing at Learmonth airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia following an inflight accident featuring a pair of sudden uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that severely injured many of the passengers and crew. The injuries included fractures, lacerations and spinal injuries. At Learmonth, the plane was met by the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and CareFlight, where 14 people were airlifted
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The flight envelope protections allowed the captain to pull full aft on the sidestick without the risk of stalling the airplane.""
Incidents Qantas Flight 72.
Qantas 72 had suffered an uncommanded pitch-down due to erroneous data from one of its ADIRU computers.
Incidents Air France Flight 447.
Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009 killing all aboard.
Temporary inconsistency between measured speeds