Jetstar Grounds 6 jets
 

Jetstar grounds six jets flights in chaos | Plane Talking

Jetstar has grounded five A320s and one A321 apparently because of maintenance issues.
There are reports via Twitter by affected passengers of a total shambles at airports served by the carrier.

wind-up?????

Not a wind-up but a huge cock up!

Jetstar grounds four A320s over missed inspections

I wonder who's ass is on the line now......


I can see it now....someone saying .....yeah..... "It's HIS cock up, MY ASS":eek:





PS........anyone have some spare A320's laying around doing nothing :p

you got to love it though....same day CEO no2 releases staff memo in regards to Tiger and how safety is the no1 priority.,........you cannot make this s**t up seriously people. i can just see the new Mastercard ad......priceless

:hmm:
If there was "no Risk" (not even a little bit) - why is this inspection and maintenance done at all. :rolleyes:

So why havnt CASA grounded the entire airline?, seeing as they have effectively been flying unserviceable aircraft....:=

I think the answer, Ultralights, is that whilst JQ generally show nothing but contempt towards their staff, they generally don't show the same degree of contempt towards CASA. Unlike a certain other airline in the news at the moment.

ultralights l tend to aggree with you. If maintenance is not done on aircraft in the correct manner then there is a serious safety threat in place and the airline should be grounded. That is how it works now in Aus..An then get the books out on any of the small mishaps that have happened in the past. Just trying to encourage a level playing field and not using personality disputes to govern the lively hood of the the professional employees of all the airlines in aus.

If I remember rightly, the problems Ansett had with the 767's were discovered by Ansett engineering. Ansett addressed the issues & self reported to CASA. I believe these problems were missed inspections on one occasion & a deactivated slide on the other.

CASA's response to the self reporting was to ground the 767 fleet for a period of time on both occasions - Christmas & Easter.

Will CASA be doing the same here & grounding Jetstar's A320 fleet while they investigate the missed inpections? After all, it is holiday time, which seems to be their favourite time for groundings. 2 weeks ought to do it!

CASA Catches Up
 

CASA is looking into safety concerns over maintenance at Jetstar.
Jetstar took two planes out of service on Thursday afternoon, which lead to flight cancellations.
A Jetstar spokeswoman says the planes were grounded after crews discovered there had been a mix up over the timing of maintenance.
She says some safety checks on minor things like testing emergency batteries and sampling hydraulic fluid had not been performed within the proper time frame.
The airline says they notified the authority as soon as possible but there was never any risk to passenger safety and the planes were returned to service the next day.
CASA's Peter Gibson has confirmed they are investigating.
"We need to understand how they came to make those mistakes," he said.
"We'll be reviewing the actions that Jetstar have taken in relation to the maintenance inspections on their aircraft, understanding why some inspections were missed, and looking to make sure that their maintenance systems are working properly."
It is the second time in as many weeks a low-cost carrier has been brought to the attention of the safety authority, after Tiger Airways was grounded until August over safety concerns.

sorry - not buying the spin - you just don't miss or forget to put the a/c into maintenance and, you don't pass it off like it does not matter!

AT
(what is missing is EXACTLY how the schedule was missed - esp given the "arrangements" that JQ use. That IS something for the Regulator to carefully consider)

Is this based on your knowledge of maintenace control and planning?

Sounds like you think it is a common occurrence and acceptable....which is a bizarre view considering whats at stake.


I think this little Jetstar fiasco, might be a little orchestrated. They have either accidentally missed the checks, which is highly doubtful, given the supposed rigorous record keeping they have....or they have just intentionally delayed a few things they have been able to get away with in the past. Now that CASA has decided to take TIGER to task, maybe someone in Jetstar who has been given a little bit of a free reign, has been told to pull things in somewhat whilst the regulator has found its new found role of(surprise surprise) REGULATING!

Blackhand,

6 Aircraft missing inspections?
Jetstar stating it's only minor things!

That's a chronic system failure! What other rot is sitting in there waiting to come out?

Mr Gibson would not be drawn on whether Jetstar was facing penalties over the incident, saying only that CASA would take "any appropriate action if it's required".

Read more: Jetstar plane checks 'under investigation' - Civil Aviation Safety Authority | News.com.au

Wonder if its a smoke screen to make CASA look good and fair with the Tiger grounding

This is the tip of the iceberg, if they are missing scheduled maintenance then the question is "what else is/has fallen through the cracks?"

They have a problem.

I was under the impression that the grounding to Tiger was due to 'systems' failures as opposed to the actual incidents themselves. The systems failures seemed to be more geared towards how an airline deals with a breach when discovered. CASA were not happy that once reported or discovered there was a robust enough system to change the behaviours or systems that led to the breach.

In the case of these Jetstar lapses, if JQ can show CASA that due to self auditing of the maintenance system they discovered a 'flaw' and that systems were now in place to ensure this particular 'flaw' shouldn't happen again then Jetstar will be fee and clear. If JQ say to CASA 'no need to change' it was only minor stuff after all then CASA may act.

Tiger seems to have had several warnings regarding both the standard of pilot training and of keeping maintenance records, CASA allowed a certain amount of leeway for TIGER to address these issues. CASA seems to think that TIGER management didn't heed the warnings and were forced to ground the airline whilst these new systems are being implemented.

It's a bit soon to say that, but if anything the hope is that after the CASA investigation on how these mistakes came to be, hopefully the issues/shortcomings are addressed and it doesn't happen again.