VH-OEB is a B747-48E.
8E is the Boeing customer code for
Asiana Airlines.
VH-OEC and VH-OED are B747-4H6s.
H6 is the Boeing customer code for
Malaysian Airlines.
If the aircraft had been painted in AUS this wouldn't have happened.
Oh really?
That statement has about as much basis in fact as the popular myth that Qantas has never had a hull loss accident. (it has had several)
The only thing that we can be confident of is that if an Australian engineer had used an inappropriate tool or technique the ALAEA (the Australian aircraft engineers trade union) would have been out in force to distract and delay until any incriminating evidence had been inexplicably misplaced.
You get what you pay for with aircraft maintenance, and it is important that CASA realises this now, and puts a halt to the practise of allowing airlines to carry out maintenance off shore.
Here we go again – engineers trying to pretend that an
industrial relations issue is a
flight safety issue.
Ho hum....
