Transport safety bureau investigation into January QF144 flight reveals mechanical problem to blame for outage of one engine
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“Effective decision-making” from a Qantas flight crew has been found to have contributed to the safe landing of a flight which issued a mayday call when one of its two engines abruptly shut down over the Tasman sea earlier this year.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, in its investigation into the Qantas flight 144 from Auckland to Sydney on 18 January, also found voice recordings in the aircraft’s black box were “inadvertently overwritten” during maintenance after the plane landed safely in Sydney.
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