Rumour has it that that particular aircraft was burning a very high rate of consumption of oil in the lead up to the event, of which maintainance were aware but of course did very little about it.
WOY was very lucky a few months back. Oil useage off the charts, one or 2 pilots eventually refused to fly it and were shown the door. As it turns out the engine was not far off failure by the time a now ex company maintainer took it on himself to investigate the cause of the constant oil consumption.
Is it just me or is there a pattern here? 2 aircraft in the space of 8 months with high oil consumption and RKs answer is to keep sending the planes flying. One has an engine failure in flight and the other was not far off failure by the time something was done.
The whole dynamic at that company is appalling. Pilot morale is at an all time low, pilots are frowned upon for speaking up about concerns with maintenance in some cases even dismissed, pilots are threatened with dismissal for associating with pilots from sling and shoal air. Just look at the way the last CP was replaced. It speaks absolute volumes about the place.