Qantas A380 grounded after door almost ripped off at Sydney Airport
That's what happens when you send your maintenance overseas!
Oh? Hang on...
(Relax, I'm just stirring...)
Oh? Hang on...
(Relax, I'm just stirring...)
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Funny, I'm watching Outback Truckers right now, and a guy transporting a 9-meter-wide 90-tons transformer is complaining that a tourist caravan slowed him down to "just 70 kph". Need for speed, ay.
Generally we don’t tow with doors open, amm allows or not. Places a lot of load on the knuckle in the hinge arm. They are generally worn anyway so the bumps don’t help. Also more things hanging off the side don’t help with clearance from stands. Cargo doors can be hanging vertical for a tow if needed.
Just a simple maintenance error and I feel sorry for the guys kicking themselves for the mistake. They would have been under pressure to move it and probably over worked and possibly tired. as long as the skin wasn’t damaged or the door frame, bolt a new door and Hing arm and guide rods tig it and off you go 1-2 shifts if you have spares on hand. Send the door to the shop. Don’t know if the 380 door is glare or alloy. The guys are human and make mistakes. Not because they came to work deciding to rip off a door. But because of a bunch of factors that led to the incident.
Just a simple maintenance error and I feel sorry for the guys kicking themselves for the mistake. They would have been under pressure to move it and probably over worked and possibly tired. as long as the skin wasn’t damaged or the door frame, bolt a new door and Hing arm and guide rods tig it and off you go 1-2 shifts if you have spares on hand. Send the door to the shop. Don’t know if the 380 door is glare or alloy. The guys are human and make mistakes. Not because they came to work deciding to rip off a door. But because of a bunch of factors that led to the incident.
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Generally we don’t tow with doors open, amm allows or not. Places a lot of load on the knuckle in the hinge arm. They are generally worn anyway so the bumps don’t help. Also more things hanging off the side don’t help with clearance from stands. Cargo doors can be hanging vertical for a tow if needed.
Just a simple maintenance error and I feel sorry for the guys kicking themselves for the mistake. They would have been under pressure to move it and probably over worked and possibly tired. as long as the skin wasn’t damaged or the door frame, bolt a new door and Hing arm and guide rods tig it and off you go 1-2 shifts if you have spares on hand. Send the door to the shop. Don’t know if the 380 door is glare or alloy. The guys are human and make mistakes. Not because they came to work deciding to rip off a door. But because of a bunch of factors that led to the incident.
Just a simple maintenance error and I feel sorry for the guys kicking themselves for the mistake. They would have been under pressure to move it and probably over worked and possibly tired. as long as the skin wasn’t damaged or the door frame, bolt a new door and Hing arm and guide rods tig it and off you go 1-2 shifts if you have spares on hand. Send the door to the shop. Don’t know if the 380 door is glare or alloy. The guys are human and make mistakes. Not because they came to work deciding to rip off a door. But because of a bunch of factors that led to the incident.
Despite some snide remarks, keeping an airline going with the enormous KPI pressures from those in the ivory towers is not easy. The pilots cop it, the cabin crew cop it, and the engineers cop it. I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I can tell you, sometimes it takes larger balls than I can fit in my pants to tell some suit in an office that this is going to take a little bit longer than he thinks it should.
Pilots have nothing but the highest respect for engineers, make no mistake
of it. No idea how the job has no fatigue limits.
Totally feel for the guys and hope it’s recognised as just a mistake. None of us go to work and hope to damage a machine, it’s basically a worst nightmare scenario.
The airline already has two A380s on the ground undergoing refurbishment in Brisbane and Abu Dhabi
Dresden or Brisbane pretty close.
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i expect the incidence rate to be extremely low when factoring for number of tows accomplished successfully... but still... a 0 incidence rate is the target, not low incidence rates
Yeah back in the GODs when I was doing tow & stow as a leading hand, I always had my wing walkers each check their side for any obstructions specifically including doors prior to any tow. I hate paperwork!!
No criticism mind, I worked the aircraft in the days when we actually had skilled people doing it and more than 1 on a shift.
No criticism mind, I worked the aircraft in the days when we actually had skilled people doing it and more than 1 on a shift.
It was similar in the UK in the good old days ...... man watching each engine & each wing tip checked along with plenty of other people checking & a whistle if anything didn’t look right ..... probably can’t have that these days as someone would complain about the noise....... people on the aircraft were aeronautical trained!!
Love the name by the way musthavagander ..... we used to have some called musthavapiss. When the work was being dished out!
Love the name by the way musthavagander ..... we used to have some called musthavapiss. When the work was being dished out!
