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  2. Qantas Flight 72 - Wikipedia

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    Qantas Flight 72 (QF72) was a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport by an Airbus A330.On 7 October 2008, the flight made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia, following an inflight accident that included a pair of sudden, uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that caused severe injuries—including fractures, lacerations ...

  3. List of accidents and incidents involving the Airbus A330

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    On 7 October 2008, Qantas Flight 72, an Airbus A330-303 registered as VH-QPA, suffered a rapid loss of altitude in two sudden uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres while 150 km (81 nmi) from the Learmonth air base in northern Western Australia. After declaring an emergency, the crew landed the aircraft safely at RAAF Base Learmonth.

  4. Air data inertial reference unit - Wikipedia

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    Complex interactions between flight computers and ADIRUs can lead to counter-intuitive behaviour for the crew in the event of a failure. In the case of Qantas Flight 72, the captain switched the source of IR data from ADIRU1 to ADIRU3 following a failure of ADIRU1; however ADIRU1 continued to supply ADR data to the captain's primary flight ...

  5. Single-event upset - Wikipedia

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    On October 7, 2008, Qantas Flight 72 at 37,000 feet, one of the plane's three air data inertial reference units had a failure, causing incorrect data to be sent to the plane's flight control systems. This caused pitch-downs and caused severe injuries to crew and passengers.

  6. Qantas tests world's longest commercial flight - AOL

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    It's the ultimate in long haul flights. Australian airline Qantas have tested out a non-stop journey from New York to Sydney -- lasting nearly 20 hours and spanning more than 16,000 kilometres, or ...

  7. Two passengers in hospital after Qantas flight hits severe ...

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    Qantas said in a statement: “Cabin crew helped attend to customers in the air and once the aircraft landed on the ground.” The remaining passengers have since arrived in Hervey Bay after being ...

  8. Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt - Wikipedia

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    On 7 October 2008, Qantas Flight 72 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 resulted in serious injuries to many of the occupants.

  9. Where are the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash ... - AOL

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    A notorious real-life 1972 plane crash in the Andes is the inspiration behind the new Netflix adventure drama "Society of the Snow.". The disaster happened on Oct. 13, 1972, when Uruguayan Air ...