QF32 - No. 1 engine failure to shutdown
The ABC’s treatment of the QF 32 incident treads familiar and slightly disappointing ground
While I thought that the ABC 4 Corners programs treatment of the QF 32 incident was a creditable effort I have to say that I was unimpressed by the producers homing in on a (presumed) Rolls Royce production error as the casus belli.
The report focused almost entirely upon the engine rotor burst and its proximal cause but failed to discuss (for example) the situational overload introduced by the ECAM fault reporting, or for that matter why a single rotor burst should have caused so much cascading damage and so nearly led to the loss of the aircraft.
Overall two out of four stars 
If however your interested in a discussion of the deeper issues arising from this incident then see:
- Lessons from QF32. A discussion of some immediate lessons that could be learned from the QF 32 accident;
- The ATSB QF32 preliminary report. A commentary on the preliminary report and its strengths and weaknesses;
- Rotor bursts and single points of failure. A review and discussion of the underlying certification basis for commercial aircraft and protection from rotor burst events;
- Rotor bursts and single points of failure (Part II), Discusses differences between the damage sustained by QF 32 and that premised by a contemporary report issued by the AIA on rotor bursts;
- A hard rain is gonna fall. An analysis of 2006 American Airlines rotor burst incident that indicated problems with the FAA’s assumed rotor burst debris patterns; and
- Lies, damn lies and statistics. A statistical analysis, looking at the AIA 2010 report on rotor bursts and it’s underestimation of their risk.
