Virgin ATR grounded in Albury
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Virgin ATR grounded in Albury
Interesting article by Ben Sandilands on Crikey:
Virgin Australia's leg breaker flight under double inquiry | Plane Talking
Anyone know what the story is?
Virgin Australia's leg breaker flight under double inquiry | Plane Talking
Anyone know what the story is?
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padlock please
I don't think that it is advantageous to run two threads on this. Let's stick with http://www.pprune.org/australia-new-...akes-vara.html
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My sources have told me that yes indeed the damage is much worse than was first thought. Of concern is how the aircraft could operate all those sectors post incident, without any damage detected?
The investigation by the ATSB and the actions of CASA yet again point to a pair of organisations that simply refuse to act in a transparent manner, but instead scramble to protect the 'big end of town'. This incident has the potential to turn into yet another complete clusterf#ck to add to the ATSB and CASA history pages. They just don't get it do they?
The investigation by the ATSB and the actions of CASA yet again point to a pair of organisations that simply refuse to act in a transparent manner, but instead scramble to protect the 'big end of town'. This incident has the potential to turn into yet another complete clusterf#ck to add to the ATSB and CASA history pages. They just don't get it do they?
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VARA certainly aren't the big end of town and have been on shaky terms with our Canberra overlords for sometime now.
Not too sure what CASA could come out and immediately do - personally a bit of the ol' Tiger treatment would have been good to see, just to show that CASA weren't bullying Tiger a few years ago and they are trying to be consistent... But you're probably right, that big red virgin on the fin makes those decisions very hard to make.
Not too sure what CASA could come out and immediately do - personally a bit of the ol' Tiger treatment would have been good to see, just to show that CASA weren't bullying Tiger a few years ago and they are trying to be consistent... But you're probably right, that big red virgin on the fin makes those decisions very hard to make.
You are right, the Virgin tail gets them across the line. No doubt people at CASA also have some association at Virgin.
If the tail was striped it would have been grounded quite some time ago...
If the tail was striped it would have been grounded quite some time ago...
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E_A, yes mate, there are some photos. However they are under lock and key due to the sensitivity of the subject. Doing my best to source one or two, if I succeed I will post them.
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Lookyloo, thanks for the warm welcome 
I missed you also. I would say para377 has a different source to myself, perhaps you can make your own contact, I'm not overly interested, but thanks anyway.
I missed you also. I would say para377 has a different source to myself, perhaps you can make your own contact, I'm not overly interested, but thanks anyway.
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How are CASA and the ATSB hiding things? I didn't realise they were the ones obligated to tell the press every time there was an accident or incident? Once the report is finalised, yes, but not during the initial investigation. I'd say they are probably doing their job properly behind the scenes - just because you, the pruner, doesn't know about it doesn't mean it's being handled poorly.
Which organisation handles the ATR's engineering in SYD?
Which organisation handles the ATR's engineering in SYD?
In this day and age, why is more info not forthcoming? The apparent secrecy surrounding these circumstances only serves to encourage discussion of a cover up. Methinks somebody porked it up, big time!
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This article has a photo of the aircraft in the hangar, but taken some distance away.
http://transform.fairfaxregional.com...h678_fcrop.jpg
http://transform.fairfaxregional.com...h678_fcrop.jpg
i dare say that would have been removed for inspection purposes TBM.....
The issue here is very much who did the post- overstress inspection and why wasnt the tail damage picked up then.
The issue here is very much who did the post- overstress inspection and why wasnt the tail damage picked up then.