Qantas 737 jet in tailstrike at Sydney Airport after wrong data tapped into iPad

By Matt O'Sullivan
Updated November 17 2015 - 8:08am, first published November 16 2015 - 4:38pm
A Qantas 737 similar to the plane pictured scraped its tail on a runway at Sydney Airport in August last year.   Photo: Paul Rovere
A Qantas 737 similar to the plane pictured scraped its tail on a runway at Sydney Airport in August last year. Photo: Paul Rovere

A Qantas 737 jet carrying 152 passengers and crew scraped its tail on the tarmac at Sydney Airport after the pilots tapped the wrong data into an iPad linked to the aircraft's computer, air safety investigators have found.

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