Originally Posted by
Grebe
YIKES ! significant issue re cracks from another site if true
50 percent of those > 25000 cycles in one airline checked with cracks
First 10 acft checked 5 cracked
By Jetson on Saturday, Oct 5th 2019 19:41Z
My company started the AD checks two days ago.
By the A.D. Aircrafts with 25.000 or more cycles have 7 days to have the pickles checked otherwise will be grounded.
Aircrafts with less than 25.000 cycles have longer schedules.
In 5 of 10 first aircrafts checked (all with more than 25.000 cycles) the cracks were found and are grounded. They don’t have any idea for how long since there is no definitive bulletin to repair it (the A.D. only states which aircrafts will be checked first and to have all aircrafts with cracks grounded until further instruction)
They are guessing they will be grounded for more than 40 days.
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Flew through ATL last night - not uncommon to see one or two AC at the maintenance shop - usually larger types and most often in hangar. There were a number of Delta and AA 737NGs parked outside the Delta shop - almost as many AA as Delta. As far as I can tell, AA isn't one of Delta's TechOps customers.