QF A380 off jacks?
 

Rumour......Rumour. .....Rumour.

Heard today a QF A380 had an incident while on jacks in Syd.

Did it come off or not?

CROW.

Yes, could be out for two weeks.

If that's true' they'll be calling on International Rescue yet again. They'll probably have to delay sending the next B744 to Victorville.

Scheduling is in deep trouble

I thought they jacked themselves ?
( talking about the new planes, not scheduling )

Big picture people, you are losing focus.

The Net promoter scores from the ever reducing passenger numbers carried on qf metal are fabulous and the engagement levels of customer facing staff have never been better.

Just ask us, we'll tell you.:ugh::ugh::ugh:

Couldn't have been QF engineers involved.....

The jungle drums say that the aircraft will be out for at least a month, and that's from an optimist.

The problem apparently is fallout from the migrated bush in the horizontal stab repair job which led to a cracked brace being discovered in the area and temp repaired until this hangar visit.

This job required the a/c to be jacked and leveled and the stab to be jacked with enough load to take its weight. When the stab jacking process had barely started there was a nasty bang and bits started raining down. The four jack loadings required had been calculated independently by a couple of well qualified people who had done the same job recently. A mystery right now is how the jack points failed so spectacularly with such low loadings, nothing like the final load required.

Well at least QF have a good history of repairing aircraft with damage out of the ordinary.
I doubt this will be any different.

I heard a similar story Mustafagander, looks like you might be on the money. Also heard a suggestion for an ops manager per Dugong to try and keep the Maint in check.

1 Dugong 1 Manager....WTF....Keep piling on the layers! What is that now 5 or 6 levels of oversight prior to people on the floor. Thats the way back to profitability.

Hope it's not Nancy.

kilogram v pound error?

Fris,according to the media (yeah,I know), it is 'Sir Charles Kingsford Smith'
(VH-OQF)

Megan, I very much doubt that it's a Kg vs Lb error. Can you imagine the French using anything other than SI units??? Sacre bleu! :ok:

OQF out to June at this stage...

OQF was the backdrop in the Anzac Day celebrations held today in the Maint hangar. That explains the availability of an A380 !!!

Here's an image of the Gallipoli event from Australian Aviation twitter feed.

There seems to be some damage visible in the horizontal stabilizer.

https://twitter.com/AusAviation/stat...27670454292480

How deliciously ironic that an aeroplane named in honour of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith should, one hundred years after the event being celebrated, finally get to display the name ANZAC.

In 1934, Smithy had sought to honour his fellow ANZACs by bestowing this very name on the Lockheed Altair with which he planned to represent Australia in the 1934 Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne. The outcome was described by P.G. Taylor in his 1935 book "Pacific Flight":

Idiots. If you can see any damage you have better eyes than me.