I wonder then who's A380 is it then painted in Emirates colours sitting in the EK hangers now in Dubai. Doesn't seem like it left for France yet. People check your facts!!!!!
OK the location (DA is in DXB) was not correct, but everything else seems to match with what I hear....
Scairbus is too embarrassed to report about the incident I think (you wonder how well they tested the showers) and also EK keeps low profile....
Hmmm... will there be an ASR?
Of course only rumours but an engineer told me that as earlier posts indicate that there was some sort of overload on the electrical circuits - maybe due to to the shower system but unsure of that. Apparently the loads on the generation system are really high ( durrrr) and that may be what caused the problem.
All I know is that my wife who went over to the 380 as crew in June has yet to fly the aircraft - and from the likely delay ( I heard a month down time to sort out) she might not fly it for some time!!!..
The funny thing is that there are heaps of these things floating around singapore at the moment and we - the largest customer cant get another one to replace it!!
Also - does any one notice the irony of the 'good water - bad water' that is going on at the moment.
All this talk to save fuel by carrying less potable ( read 'bad' water) so that another jet in the fleet can carry more 'good' shower water - which seems to be the culprit behind the fault??
Bit like good weight (duty free ) versus bad weight ( such as life jackets) that carriers are moving off their jets to save gas...
Being on a day off, I hurried into the Office this morning along with the usual squadron of First Officer 5IC Senior Deputy Assistant Chief Manager's Attache's Secretary pilots, First Officer instructors and First Officer Inserters of Amendments as well as various other sundry FO boot-lickers, brown-nosers, arse-kissers and pursuers of grandeur, in the hopes, as is the fashion, of furthering my own position by performing such mundane tasks as may disdainfully be handed my way. Whilst re-loading a photocopier, I overheard a comment from a knowledgeable source who claims the current crisis with the leaking A380 Arse-Washing cubicles has been traced back to the same contractor (awarded through "Procurements" at the lowest possible price) who, armed with a tube of Silastic, was responsible for such acts and mis-deeds as:
The plastering at "Envy" villas in Garhoud,
The filtration of the Silicon Oasis swimming pool,
The sound-proofing at "DK" villas, also in Garhoud,
Road water-drainage city-wide,
The rain-proofing of the Mall of the Emirates,
The tech-training of the Oasis Shopping Centre welding team,
More please, Mullah. Have you ever considered doing an update to the Caravan scroll (and of course, sharing it with us here)? The sheik's current cameleer boss would probably an Expurt Expat ex-donkey driver by the name of Teak Ass. (Think about it.) Along with many others, I await your additions/modifications to the now outdated original.
Fellas, I have no useful information to share regarding the beaching of this particular whale but, bearing in mind the sordid habits of some of our less couth brethren from across the NAT, I'd like to venture forth a suggestion for the skilled plumbers specially hired to maintain shower serviceability: Has anyone checked the drains? One never knows when a vacationing captain heading westward might, having indulged in a refreshment or two, decide to fill in a handy HR Rep on an outstanding matter or two in the privacy of the shower cubicle. A carelessly discarded and quickly forgotten water balloon might subsequently, having disgorged its contents onto the shower floor, slide down the drain to become firmly lodged in the s-bend, thereby backing up the mixture to the overflow and sending it cascading down upon the E&E works. It's probably that simple.
The problem is quite serious for what I hear, word on the street has it that it landed off a training flight when the two engines with trust rev would not cancel so the shut them down, started the APU on taxi in then at the gate shut the other two engine down, instead of the APU picking up the elect load it all went rather dark and quiet.
Engineers then found one of the boxes in the E&E bay happily burning away.
Thats about the size of it. Has Swissair written all over it. Some serious answers needed here. No ecam warnings in the cockpit at all. Apparantly the malfunction took them out along the way.
Having just one acft of the type and size is a big risk on its own: Being it EK, is even bigger news because of the publicity given to the different events and to the acft herself.
New aircraft go unserviceable more often than not. It happened with all the types I dealt with. Even moving them from one area to another on our own Globe sometimes causes a lot of problems caused mainly by weather factors.
It's really a massive airplane with loads to prove. Time will tell. They love it in the air and that's where they make money.
... thinking that I was left to believe, that with all longhaul aircraft the deeper meaning was to move them from one aera to another on our own globe (reminds me of our own Indian High School) ...
... but with the A380 we all learn new things, like that weather might cause a lot of problems ...
... or that they make money with it in the air. Wasn't that what it was designed for? ...
Hallowed are the A380s, to enlighten us about aviation!
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puff is right. Problem is that the fried box is the only one of its kind on the planet (with MSN13 still being kitted out). Delay is caused by the manufacturer having to build a replacement from scratch.
It seems that we (and mainly Scairbus) were VERY VERY lucky last week that things did not get out of control completely!!! Most of us have the Swiss MD11 still in fresh memory.....
Several engineers confirm the whale is a nightmare with all the open maintenance issues but the damage they discovered in the E&E compartment was beyond belief...
Had nothing to do with the showers. Some FOD left behind while fitting out the bird in Hamburg caused a short. Sorted, fixed, replaced. EDA is flying again.
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