nitpicker330Sunfish basically said in post 111 that Chinese Engineers will not bother to follow the Airbus/Boeing operational manuals and therefore cannot maintain properly!! What rubbish!!
All I know is CX a/c aren't falling out of the sky.
How long have you been around Nitpicker?
Harken back to the late '90's in Cathay and you would find identical Industrial conditions then as what's happening in Australia with Qantas now. Lo and behold we see Freehills behind both exercises in Union Busting.
So what Sunfish wrote was crap is it?
What about the TAECO B747-400 incident. TAECO? that was Cathy's little "off-shoring" exercise in cost-cutting. 400 gets painted on the mainland at Xiamen on the cheap. Only this from a report " Because of carelessness, lax standards and abysmall quality control, the static ports and the pitot heads were blocked by paint and debris"
Further quotes "But these sorts of engineering problems were avoidable incidents and, in our company, they were becoming more frequent. Like NASA at the time of Challenger and Columbia, it had got to the point in Cathay where there were serious flaws in the safety culture and, like Townsend Thorensen's " Disease of sloppiness" and negligence at the time of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, the responsibility for this went up the hierarchy right the way to the top.
As for CX aren't falling out of the sky statement, well what about the A330 CX780 out of Surabaya? Landed CLK 13 April 2010 with a double engine failure.
The problem here is one that can be squarely sheeted home to a Management culture that "talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk."
Sound familiar?