The Meaning Revolution by Fred Kofman & Reid Hoffman

Author:Fred Kofman & Reid Hoffman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2018-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

A BUMPY RIDE

On a bright November morning in 2010, Qantas Airways Flight 32 took off from Singapore en route to Sydney. Just before reaching eight thousand feet, passengers heard a loud boom and then a crashing sound. One of the engines had caught fire. The ensuing explosion tore fragments through the underside of the plane. A red alarm flashed on the pilot’s control panel. A siren shrieked in the cockpit. The plane started shaking. Suddenly everything started to fail—fuel pumps, electrical systems, hydraulics. Twenty-one of the plane’s twenty-two major systems were damaged or completely disabled.

The pilot, Richard de Crespigny, turned the plane back to Singapore. On the emergency descent, the computer system sounded, “Stall! Stall! Stall!”; de Crespigny ignored the automated voice and stayed focused on his task.

The runway was just long enough for the plane to land—if the captain overshot the asphalt, the plane would crash into sand dunes. One hundred meters short of the dunes, the plane skidded to a stop. That’s when de Crespigny turned on the PA system and said to the passengers, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Singapore. The local time is five minutes to midday on Thursday, November 4, and I think you’ll agree that was one of the nicest landings we have experienced for a while.”

Investigators later said that Qantas Flight 32 was the most damaged Airbus A380 ever to land safely. De Crespigny was declared a hero.1

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