The mystery of ghost flight QF1460

My best flights ever are those ones in to Canberra from Sydney or Melbourne, still in the clothes I put on days ago in some ski resort in the US, my giant bags of LOOT safely stashed in the hold.

Best flight ever = anything departing Canberra – esp to commute to Las vegas

Best flight I ever took was Sydney to Moruya in the co-pilot seat. Pilot got permission to fly at 500ft and spent the trip looking for the Tall Ships sailing to Sydney and buzzed the First Fleet Re-enactment voyage as they were moored in Jervis Bay….best flight ever

Qantas and Telstra, they are so similar!

No mystery, really.

I fly into/out of here at least one a week and long ago realised that there is no relationship between Qantas time and reality.

Troy

Absent Diane said :

I love flying in dash-8’s, especially on a nice cloudless day too or from sydney… it’s funny i was scared of flying until I went up in a little cesna when I was about 9 or 10. now i quite enjoy it. The best was flying from port augusta to adelaide in a 7 or 8 seater in a storm… I missed out on getting the co-pilot’s chair though so I was spewing!!

Those are not the words of someone “with plumbing”.

AMD, fess up, you’re a woman.

Trust me, it takes one to know one … hehe.

The Metro is a very fast and generally reliable aircraft, it’s just that they can be quite a handful in the wrong hands, and if things go wrong, they can go very wrong.

The mail plane that crashed near Sydney a week or so ago was a Metro.

I agree with the Dash 8 / Metroliner assumption. I worked in the Pilbara once where the daily flight was scheduled to be a Metroliner, aka “The Pencil”. It was regularly late, lost, or another type of aircraft.

Flying in a Dash 8 is a good experience. You can see bits moving (ie the props) and you can really enjoy the flying experience. Seat of the pants stuff, even for the passengers.

As for the lost flight, doesn’t QF mean QantasFantom?

I suppose I have never actually died in a Dash 8. They can’t be too bad.

I’d say it never left Sydney, and they forgot to update their schedules until the morning. Human error.

QBT used to laugh at me for requesting Dash-8s (everyone else requests not to have them), but I liked being able to watch the ground and navigate, and also you got coffee. On teh bigger planes, they draw the curtains and feed coffee to the business class people and think that you don’t know.

Mind you, I got laughed-at by QBT for asking to book a plane ride. For some reason, they found that funny.