It is true, **** does happen, but it's happening a lot lately. Why? Because Qantas Management is running Qantas Engineering into the ground. Lets hope one of their aircraft don't follow.
How is Qantas Engineering Management doing this? Assuming that they are not totally inept, the plan that they are following includes:-
1) Outsourcing maintenance / only paying for the bare minimum to be done.
2) Banning training / not allowing those that do training (in their own time, with their own money) to use it.
3) No pay rise for LAME's for more than 2 years / not competitve in market place = under-staffed.
4) Insufficient ground time to carry out required maintenance when A/C do have a maintenance period.
5) Insufficient parts to repair the A/C when something fails / MEL lists now reading like a novel.
6) A management team that has no / v. little aviation experience.
Is that why they flew in an LAME from SYD to repair the aircraft's broken window in ADL only to find that he wasn't even licenced on the aircraft? Better fly in an another LAME from MEL to sign off his work! On second thoughts, maybe they are inept!!!