Metro grounded

[news]

A metro appears to be unairworthy. For over two weeks it has sat at Taree airport with a major defect. The bent propeller blades on one of its engines indicate heavy contact with a foreign object. Anyone able to shed some light on the occurrence.

[Kiaruku Kid]

Yes - mmm! A very interesting scenario or so the rumors go. VH TGQ Big Sky Express's (Transair) metro 3 H - pilot says he hit a roo on landing ?? Ac ouple of weeks after the AOC was pulled. Speculation is also rife that it was riven into a GPU that is was assigned to pick up ???
I can imagine the interest in this case - no AOC to cover the aircraft? Probably no specific CASA approval to operate the aircraft outside of the maintenance system under the AOC'less operation.
Was it reported to the ATSB? What about CASA? What about the pilot - is he absolved from the 'private' flight. mmmm - the plot continues with TA and BSE even after all the drama's of early December.

[wateroff]

KK, watch the rumours mate, those of us who were trying our utmost to improve every facet of the company are trying to move on, **** like this doesnt help, and out of interest, all paperwork was in order and Skippy had a bad xmas.

[megle2]

KKid - Roo's do attack aircraft
Couple of significant ones last month. Metro and B350.

[tobzalp]

I have a feeling they flew TGQ up to AF early this week.