Gases ain’t Gases

So, the stupid bug is catching first the NSW state government now Qantas.

According to The Age article, Qantas service techs were fill the emergency oxygen tank with nitrogen. The mistake was notice when a engineer questioned the techs on what they were doing.

I can imagine the language he used when he realised what they were doing.

Though Qantas’s safety processes kick in straight away and all aircraft serviced by Qantas had been notified it still leaves you to wonder.

I personally know the equipment and processes very well and I’m left almost without words. The service tech would have had to go to allot of trouble to connect the wrong cylinders and I do mean allot trouble. They would have had to put in thought to come up with the solution they did and it makes you wonder why they didn’t let their thoughts go one more step…..*shakes head*

For those who don’t know the air you breath is made up of 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen (thought other gases are present in very very small volumes).

Human beings NEED 21% oxygen not 18%, not 25% we need 21% it’s amazing what happens to the human body when you allow it to have too much or not enough oxygen.

By filling the emergency cylinder with 100% near pure nitrogen if the the plane had had an emergency and the pilots had taken a breath of the nitrogen they would have passed out almost instantly and without intervention from some one else (like removing the mask) it only takes a few minutes for them to be dead.

Let alone the fact that no one would have been flying the plane……..

Silly and deadly mistake

Thankfully the mistake was spotted, and notification sent and all appears to be safe.

Still the Qantas techs reponsible should be red faced

The Age – Probe after Qantas pumps wrong gas into jets

Stone the Bleedin’ Crows!!! – Another State Department Stuff Up?

 

Yeap, it’s another state government department stuff up…….okay okay there is yet no proof that they stuffed up but you’ve got to question the use of poisoned seed in an area that has native birds that are know for being opportunistic feeders.

It’s like only poisoning the smoked salmon at a Labor Party Conference…….sure you’re only targeting one breed of Labor Party supporter but it doesn’t mean that the others won’t have a bite while the food is free.

It’s not like there are other ways to get rid of Indian Mynah and yes these ways take longer, take more man power and cost more. But live trapping (and I know for a fact they can do it fairly effectively) leave room for mistakes such as the wrong species getting in the trap – easy just let them out, and reset the trap.

Your target species can then be put to sleep with CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) very quick the birds pretty much just fall asleep.

I’m sure that must NSW tax payer wouldn’t mind paying a little more for pest species like the Indian Mynah to be put down in the most gentle way in comparison the poison that can harm other non-target species.

Department of Transport The lights are on but no ones home

Daily Telegraph – Bird-brained system killing wildlife