SQ loses power in flight

BANGKOK  Masala Wedding Fair, now in its fourth year, will be held 13 to 14 June at the Intercontinental Hotel Bangkok.
The fair taps the growing demand to host Indian wedding in Thailand that attracts couples and families arriving, not only from India, but also from other countries with large Indian populations, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, UK, Canada and the US.
The fair showcases all the products and services, sourced in Thailand that Indian weddings require, short of a horse. It underscores how the industry has developed to the point that Indian wedding organisers no longer need to import goods and services.
The fair is a sourcing experience for both families planning an off-shore weddings and wedding planners alike. It brings together hotels in Thailand, outside catering services, photographers, make-up artists, light and sound crews, transportation services, and even liquor suppliers.
inside no 6This year’s wedding fair, to be held over the weekend, 13 to 14 June, at Bangkok’s Ploenchit Road InterContinental Hotel. It will showcase close to 100 exhibitors and is expected to welcome approximately 3,000 visitors. Admission is free.SINGAPORE, 28 May 2015: A Singapore Airlines Airbus plane carrying 194 people temporarily lost power to both engines on a recent flight to Shanghai, SIA confirmed Wednesday after a flight tracker said the plane had to descend 13,000 feet (3.96 kilometres) before normal operation was restored.
The carrier said it was investigating the 23 May incident together with Airbus and engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce.
“We are not able to provide further information but we can confirm that the same aircraft was used for the return flight,” an airline spokesman told AFP.
In a statement, SIA said the Airbus A330-300, carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew members, “encountered bad weather at 39,000 feet about three and a half hours after departure” from Singapore.
inside no 10“Both engines experienced a temporary loss of power and the pilots followed operational procedures to restore normal operation of the engines,” it said.
“The flight continued to Shanghai and touched down uneventfully at 10:56 pm (1456 GMT) local time,” it said.
It added that the engines “were thoroughly inspected and tested upon arrival in Shanghai with no anomalies detected”.
In a Twitter post late Tuesday, industry portal Flightradar24 said the flight, codenamed SQ836, “lost power on both engines & 13,000 feet before power returned”.
In a subsequent post, it said the plane “lost both engines during the cruise” while flying through a “huge storm”, pinpointing an area in the South China Sea off China’s southern coast where the incident occurred.
Airbus said only that it was “working with the company to understand what happened”.
Rolls-Royce said its Trent 700 engine “has an exceptional record of safety and reliability, established over 20 years” and has flown 32 million hours powering the Airbus A330.
The firm is working with the airline to provide support and technical assistance, a spokesperson said.
SIA has 29 Airbus A330-300s in its passenger fleet. It also has a fleet of 19 Airbus A380-800 superjumbos.
inside no 10.1The airline, along with its subsidiaries SilkAir, Scoot, and Tiger Airways, flies to 119 destinations across 35 countries.
Last week Airbus warned of a technical bug potentially affecting the engines of its A400M military planes that was discovered during an internal test after one crashed in Spain.
Greg Waldron, Asia managing editor at aviation information firm Flightglobal, said the incident was a “very unusual occurrence” that “highlights the requirements of rigorous pilot training”.
“Generally these engines are extremely reliable and they work continuously for 13 to 14 hours a day for months and years,” he said.
He added that as passengers did not seem to have posted about the incident on social media after the weekend, they may have been unaware of the engine problem.
“This is speculation, but from the inside of the aircraft it could have been that the power loss was not obvious,” Waldron said.

sourced:ttrweekly.com