Qantas B744 near Honolulu on Dec 31st 2017, failure of weather radar
Last Update: January 2, 2018 / 14:57:50 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 31, 2017
Classification
Incident
Airline
Qantas
Flight number
QF-76
Departure
Vancouver, Canada
Destination
Sydney, Australia
Aircraft Registration
VH-OJU
Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400
ICAO Type Designator
B744
The aircraft had been involved in a similiar occurrence 4 days earlier, see Incident: Qantas B744 over Pacific on Dec 27th 2017, failure of weather radar.
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Honolulu for 39 hours then positioned back to Australia and resumed service.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 31, 2017
Classification
Incident
Airline
Qantas
Flight number
QF-76
Departure
Vancouver, Canada
Destination
Sydney, Australia
Aircraft Registration
VH-OJU
Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400
ICAO Type Designator
B744
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