Airtours 757 Fleet Grounded ?

[Conehead The Barbarian]

Just heard a rumour that the Airtours
757 fleet has been grounded by Boeing
due non SB compliance. Any info ??

[Bus429]

Cone,
I heard the other night that G-MCEA had to return sharpish to the UK from Helsinki. Don't know why, though.

[mallard]

If Conehead is right it has happened since the early hours when they were up and running.
There was nothing sinister about 'EA returning from Helsinki. It simply had a number of deferred defects not easily fixed away from home and, in addition, it was replaced by a newer ship with a higher max weight making direct flights to the Canaries less of a strain in strong headwind conditions.

[LDG_GEAR _MONITOR]

heard from the large hanger at MAN that there was a prob with u/c mounting pins being corroded - apparently there was an sb mod that should of been done on the fleet but not done - an oversight of someones planning dept ? anyone else heard anything ?