NAT JET 717 mishap
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Iron men come a knockin when the bases open up in Darwin and Perth!
I got another made-in-USA ride, getting paid in greenbacks too
maybe in the 80s
loopsloops
It is now looking VERY likely that the 717 is a write off meaning it is the very FIRST jet in Qantas colours to ever be written off… Not good
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The rippling of the fuselage skin immediately aft of the ground light and fwd of the left hand wing root sticks out like bloody dogs balls. I have never come accross such parochial denial anywhere on this site. You can deny, deny, deny as much as you like, but this is an incident which illustrates flaws in th NJS system. Laughing it off and lambasting anyone who may believe this to be an issue is only adding more "holes to the swiss cheese". 
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Hoof, take a photo and post it then. Pretty simple.
another great thing about NJS and Darwin.....no hangar that can fit 717's
Qantas do not have a hangar that can fit a 737, let alone any thing bigger, how about Jetstar and Tiger.
Darwin is not a maintenance base for NJS.
It is the only base for Airnorth and they can't fit their aircraft in their one and only hangar.
With thinking like that, NJS should have hangars at Gove, Meekatharra, Kalgoorlie and a multitude of other ports.
QantasJetstar, Virgin and Tiger are going to be really busy building hangars worlwide.
I am not a big supporter of how business has been done but grow up and be sensible.
With thinking like that, NJS should have hangars at Gove, Meekatharra, Kalgoorlie and a multitude of other ports.
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Darwin is not a maintenance base for NJS.
The Coast Watch Dash 8's based in Darwin, also operated by NJS....what are the engineer's doing to them?.....washing the windscreens? No, they're actually doing scheduled maintenance on them too......making Darwin a maintenance base for NJS, not that they can get the -300's in the hangar either.
Since when have Virgin, Qantas, Tiger, etc carried out scheduled maintenance in Darwin? Let alone NJS at outer ports like Gove, Kal, Etc. Darwin is an outer port for these larger operators, just as Gove is to NJS.
I would think it to be not too unreasonable to be able to hangar a 717, especially when there are at least 3 over nighting there most nights. I believe Airnorth are in the same boat, not being able to get the E170 clearly into the hangar either. What are they going to do when they have to jack that? Leave it outside in the breeze?
Peter, I was responding to this particular comment
how do you think he knew this if there are no photos OR he wasn't able to see the aircraft in person.
Re the Darwin mainetence base in Darwin is CASA approved for Surviellance Aus. NOT the 717's. Same in Broome, same in Cairns, and if they had built a hangar in Horn isl for the islanders it wouldn't necessarily mean they could put a 717 in it, although it would need a hangar if it went there!!
The rippling of the fuselage skin immediately aft of the ground light and fwd of the left hand wing root sticks out like bloody dogs balls.
Re the Darwin mainetence base in Darwin is CASA approved for Surviellance Aus. NOT the 717's. Same in Broome, same in Cairns, and if they had built a hangar in Horn isl for the islanders it wouldn't necessarily mean they could put a 717 in it, although it would need a hangar if it went there!!