JAL Maintenance

[nomorecatering]

It appears that JAL's maintanence concerns are well founded, in reference to a thread someonehere else on pprune. Seems that JALs mainenance is worse than thought.

Last night a JAL 747 was pushing back at Sydney and the left wing gear main leg snapped close to the attatch point to the wing. Have seen the pics as proof. Aircraft was unloaded and defuled in the middle of the ramp and very slowly towed to Qantas mainenance with the gear leg held in place by red straps.

Would have been rather interstig had it happend on taxi out or on takeoff.

[Pimp Daddy]

Would have been rather interstig had it happend on taxi out or on takeoff.

You mean like it did to the Qantas 747 in Rome?

[scrubed]

So is Qwantas maintenance dodgy too, then....???

[Eimar Moron]

The JAL flights are codeshares with QF.
QANTAS does the maintenance on JAL's aircraft while they're in Australia.

Are you sure it was a JAL aircraft last night, nmc?
JAL aircraft operate daytime flights ex Australia to Japan.
QF and Australian do the night time runs up to there.

[nomorecatering]

Pretty sure it was JAL as there was a big J and a big A and a big L on the side.

[Howard Hughes]

Show us the pics!!

Cheers, HH.

:ok:

[Going Boeing]

The Qantas incident in Rome was due to sub standard overhaul by the gear manufacturer in the US. It's quite possible that JAL contracts out the overhaul of their landing gear just like QF and many other airlines.

[ame_oz]

JAL maintenance done in australia is LINE maintenance. Oil top up's and visual inspection etc. The landing gear trunion was what broke. It took some time to defuel the aircraft due to the fuel load on it and also where it was. rego is JA8184 "resocha". it had nothing to do with pushback or Qantas maintenance as during pushback it was well within the limits for towing.