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Qantas jumbo that ran off Bangkok runway in new incident
Passengers onboard the Qantas 747-400 jumbo flight 30 from London to Melbourne via Hong Kong on Thursday were left stranded at Heathrow airport after the aircraft had a defect in the cargo-hold door leaving passengers waiting more than five hours before they were forced to changes planes.

The same plane was involved in a horror incident 10 years when it slid off the end off a runway with more than 400 passengers onboard and only stopped when it hits trees on an adjoining golf course.

But a Qantas spokesman said it there was "no correlation" between the two incidences and said with a fleet of 214 planes there was always going to be "technical issues.'"

"The incident of Thursday was a cargo-door defect which was rectified and flew a few hours later, and the incident when the plane ran off a runway in 1999 was something to do with the pilot," she said.

"We are over-cautious, and often with a number of these things the plane is still able to fly but safety is our first priority."

All 347 passengers on Thursday's flight from London to Melbourne were left stranded at Heathrow Airport for more than five hours after the aircraft before all customers were put on another plane.

Passenger James Mackay, 31, from Brisbane said many of the passengers were "annoyed" because they missed connecting flights at the flight's stopover in Hong Kong.

"We were onboard for about 2.5 hours and were told they couldn't fix the problem so we had to change planes," he said.

"Most of them were missing their connecting flights so they were pretty ticked off.

"I didn't have a connecting flight because I stayed in Hong Kong but I missed a meeting."

The plane with the defect was repaired and was used for the airline's next flight out of London.

Only last month a mid-air report from (DEC) Qantas flight 52 from Singapore to Brisbane said its hydraulic steering had failed and the 247 passengers were told of the news only 10 minutes before the plane's landing.

The tarmac was cleared for the landing and after the plane landed it was then towed into a mechanical shed.
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