mackie_1951
29th Oct 2008, 09:10
Not sure if this is the right place to post his but...
Qantas chief defends maintenance record - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/29/2404980.htm)
Qantas chief defends maintenance record
Posted 1 hour 5 minutes ago
Updated 1 hour 2 minutes ago
The head of Qantas says he stands by the airline's maintenance record despite another two mid-air equipment failures.
A Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Sydney has been forced to 'piggyback' an Air New Zealand plane after its weather radar failed.
And a Sydney-bound flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Melbourne this afternoon because of problems with its landing gear indicators.
Geoff Dixon says he believes recent incidents, including one in Western Australia in which scores of people were injured when a Qantas airbus suddenly lost altitude, were not the airline's fault.
"Those two major incidents look like they were more to do with the manufacture of the aircraft or parts of the aircraft than anything to do with Qantas' maintenance," he said.
"I don't think that that's a well known fact and as you know once something gets out there it's always hard to take it back."
Qantas chief defends maintenance record - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/29/2404980.htm)
Qantas chief defends maintenance record
Posted 1 hour 5 minutes ago
Updated 1 hour 2 minutes ago
The head of Qantas says he stands by the airline's maintenance record despite another two mid-air equipment failures.
A Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Sydney has been forced to 'piggyback' an Air New Zealand plane after its weather radar failed.
And a Sydney-bound flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Melbourne this afternoon because of problems with its landing gear indicators.
Geoff Dixon says he believes recent incidents, including one in Western Australia in which scores of people were injured when a Qantas airbus suddenly lost altitude, were not the airline's fault.
"Those two major incidents look like they were more to do with the manufacture of the aircraft or parts of the aircraft than anything to do with Qantas' maintenance," he said.
"I don't think that that's a well known fact and as you know once something gets out there it's always hard to take it back."