Kuwait Airways Engine Malfunction
Posted by MarkOmarker posted a video on his blog that was taken a few days ago onboard a Kuwait Airways flight to Jeddah. The video isn’t so great but you can see that the oxygen masks were released and you could also hear some strange engine sounds. [YouTube]
According to The Buz Fairy, Al-Qabas reported that the minister of transport asked Kuwait Airways to ground three of its ailing Airbus planes due to multiple and repeat maintenance and operational issues.
It’s times like this I wish Wataniya Airways was still around.
Jul 8, 2012
@Mark. Keep dreaming, Wataniya Airways will NEVER start up again.
I do have to say I am impressed with Jazeera Airways nowadays..they’ve started selling duty free onboard
why is that impressive????
Exactly, on the last flight that I took with this airline, the stewardess was so overwhelmed with duty free, that they picked up the empty trash from the meals as the plane was landing. Most of the products that Kuwaitis wanted to buy were so sold out. I was just wondering why anyone would want to buy duty free on a one hour flight FROM Dubai?
National embarrassment, i will not dare ask why a rich state would have an airline problem, but i would date say that they have no preemptive or safety imprecation measures, i mean everyone in Kuwait for the past years complain about the problems of Kuwait Airways, and not until an airplane almost killed 200 people until the minister decided to pull in one shot 3 airplanes! so he just figured out the other 3 where dangerous! what flights where they taking before he decided to pull them out of service! such a shame, but also a crime has it caused any deaths.
I hear them talking about privatization and how that is the key to modernizing fleet, fixing poor revenue and overstaff issues, etc. It’s in the news every other month but no firm dates on when or if it will actually ever happen.
Highly doubt that privatization will seriously happen anytime soon.
Would you buy such a problematic airline?
They can’t find any buyers.
There are buyers… its just that their demands are outrageous.. They are willing to sell only 35% to the buyer, 40% to locals, 5% to Kuwaiti Employees & remaining 20% buy a local Kuwaiti Investment Firm
Privatization only means a company will have the ability to fire/hire/discipline employees…a luxury the government doesn’t have, or atleast, doesn’t wish to exercise.
The bigger reason why no one wants the airline is because of it’s aging fleet. Basically the airline is a sinking ship that cannot be salvaged. And no one wants to buy a ship with holes in it. The only way out is a complete overhaul of the airline. New planes will have to be bought.
This is why i will never fly kuwait airways no matter how cheap or even free the ticket is! cuz it aint worth risking my life over
+1
I agree and I have been following this principle since the last 8 years.. There was a time when Kuwait Airways was one of “The” Best airlines in the gulf, even with their policy of not serving alcohol on board. Their pilots were plain and simple “awesome”. Its a shame what it has become now
That’s normal engine failure people getting scared that’s also normal.
Engine failure is, by definition, not normal.
lol +1
Actually it a lot more common than you think. I believe Air Canada had one last month on a Boeing 777. Qantas had a highly publicised one recently on a brand new A380! BA had one once 20 minutes out of LAX and continued to LHR( they didn’t quite make it and had to land in Shannon, Ireland)
They happen about once a month in the air transport industry. It’s not a really big deal as long as the failure is contained. The aircraft is designed to fly just fine with one engine. Uncontained failure is the one you have to worry about.
Me and my kids travel on Kuwait Airways all the time. No worries at all!
-1
Privatizing means firing redundant employees and that’s something the government doesn’t want their hand’s on.
I heard that Kuwait Airways, as did Middle East Airlines years ago before restructuring, have thousands on payroll who don’t even go to work.
its true.
hopefully, will see some privatization completed in 2018
Yeah it’s a mess because part of the privatization clause is that the new owners won’t fire all the redundant people but no company would agree to that
Hats off to those passengers and how they only kept praying! Too bad KA, this is the incident number 1000!!! When is this gonna be solved? when death finally gets lucky??!!!
I can just imagine how ppl must have gone through mental trauma !! God save us all from any such disaster !
Weldone to capt f.alsarraf and his crew for piloting this airbus safley to ground
Kuwait airways is fine and shouldn’t be losing money, its those big heads that are deliberately ruining it and creating problems by bribing staff so that they can buy it dirt cheap when they privatize it.
What video were you watching that you think Kuwait Airways is fine?
he was watching this one > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHZzxgJpg8E
As i said these problems are deliberate and can be easily avoid, the guy behind this wants to take over the company and airport dirt cheap and believe me when i tell you hes the one forcing all this negative media and decisions on KA, the company should have bought 13 new planes last yr … apparently mr.power didn’t like that idea as there will be less pressure to privatize it along with a huge part of the current airport which is gonna become a place for new malls if they privatize KA and build a new airport as planned
rofl
@ Ahmad,
i’ve heard stuff like that too, but he is Mr. Power ?
hahahahahahahhahahaahah ROFLMAooOOOoo kikikikikikikikikikikikikikiki
If you actually knew who he is you probably wouldn’t be laughing
More money is given to the employee rather using them for buying new aircraft, or upgrading the current one !
No matter how much this kind of situation happens, people never bother about, they just want salary increment thats it !
They do not care about service quality, product enrichment or customer feedback !
The noise you can hear is the hydraulic ‘power transfer unit’ I believe, not the engine. It’s operates when one of the hydraulic systems is at lower than normal operating pressure to bring it back up to a reasonable level. Unfortunately it does make a worrying noise!!
“It’s times like this I wish Wataniya Airways was still around.”
are you kidding me ? the same guy who owned and ditched Wataniya is the same one planning to buy Kuwait airways, when the price become suitable.
if you know what i mean..
No it is not him, it is someone far more influential but was a major investor in Wataniya Airways.
Kuwait Airways had been officially notified by the manufacturer & mother company of Airbus planes by a warning and «Disclaiming» any risks that could arise in the event that Kuwait airways continues operating 5 planes type Airbus 300 due to poor maintenance, and requesting the civil aviation to stop operating & flying the planes and do an immediate Technical Inspection. This was back in 2010 and unsurprisingly Kuwaits government chose to ignore it just like it always does on any matter.
Really? You are talking rubbish!
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5022965/1/
So some random forum proves this ridiculous contention of @Barrak?
I suggest you go to http://www.truckdriversinbondage.com. Alot more truth there?
Result of turning phone on plane. #sarcasm
Unfortunately, these things DO happen every sinle day: http://avherald.com/
Kudos to the crew ! and fast recovery for the passengers from the mental trauma :-/
they should sell whatever they can and use the funds to pay off wataniya airways debts and re start it.
It’s not a random forum. Its actually a fact and Kuwait airways have been fined numerous times and they where also Warned by CDG airport that If they don’t meet the standards of safety they won’t be allowed to land in some airports in the European union. One of Kuwait airways flights had to cancel there flights because it wasn’t allowed to takeoff because of a saftey issue. The incident was bound to happen when your running a 1994 aircraft model. Im not against KA staff and actually mashallah that we have professional pilots. But a country that provides 15 percent of the worlds gas I would expect a old 5 year plane at least, but not an 18 year old plane and keep in mind w only have 17 aircrafts meaning that every aircraft has been used to the limit. In the end of the day it’s shame that KA can’t even compete with other gulf carriers and is actually bankrupt and has been trying to sell 30 percent of its shares for more then a year and still no buyer which makes sense cause whoever wants to purchase it is gonna have to buy a new fleet and find a way to cover the massive operation cost they have on there payroll.
An engine failure is something a pilot learns about first, and how to tackle that problem. The plane can fly even on one engine and in the unlikely scenario that both engines fail, the pilot releases all fuel and prepares to land by gliding.
Pilots have to go through a lot of simulated problems, sometimes 5 at a time. So I’m pretty sure they can handle an engine failing. That being said, I’m shit scared of flying.