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Richard Champion de Crespigny AM (/ ˈ k r ɛ p. n iː / KREP-nee) (born 31 May 1957) is an Australian Qantas pilot and author who served as pilot-in-command of Qantas Flight 32 and was widely praised for his cockpit resource management during the emergency with his crew (first officer Matt Hicks, second officer Mark Johnson, check captain Harry Wubben, and check captain David Evans).
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A380-842, [12] registration number VH-OQA, serial number 014. [2] [18] Having entered service in September 2008, it was the first A380 delivered to Qantas and had four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines; [19] it was named Nancy-Bird Walton [nb 1] in honour of an Australian aviation pioneer.
A Boeing 707 and Boeing 747-200 at Longreach's Qantas Founders Outback Museum. Qantas has had a varied fleet since the airline's inception. Following its foundation shortly after the end of the First World War, the first aircraft to serve in the fleet was the Avro 504K, a small biplane.
Emirates is the largest Airbus A380 operator Singapore Airlines was the first operator of the Airbus A380 All Nippon Airways was the last new customer of the Airbus A380. The following is a list of airlines that currently or formally operate the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft.
Newson was responsible for the design of the Qantas A380 fleet which first entered service in 2008, as well as the Sydney first class lounge. [156] [157] [158] Newson protégé David Caon, since 2016, has been enlisted by Qantas for product design. Caon has designed the cabins of current Qantas Boeing 787, A380 and A220 aircraft, as well as ...
A Qantas Airbus A380-800, the aircraft type that operated these flights from 2014-2020.. Qantas Flight 7 (QF7/QFA7) [a] and Qantas Flight 8 (QF8/QFA8) [a] are flights operated by Australian airline Qantas between Sydney Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which, from 2013 to 2016, were the longest regularly scheduled non-stop commercial flights in the world.
The aircraft was carrying 16 passengers and had a crew of three: two pilots and a flight engineer. The two pilots were Australian; Captain Ross Kelly, 65, was a retired Qantas A380 senior check captain, while First Officer Douglas Haywood, 58, was a check-and-training captain for the airline's fleet of Airbus A380s. [8]
Ansett, Australian Airlines, East-West and Ipec no longer exist. East-West was a subsidiary of Ansett in 1989, and was absorbed fully in 1993. Australian Airlines merged with Qantas in 1992. Ipec was acquired by Toll Holdings in 1998. The dispute crippled the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and cleared the road to airline industry deregulation.