Hey cribble, I thought the -400 was the classic. You mean they made something older? And didn't bomb Germany with it? :D :D

GAMAN

So does being ex Ansett preclude any of us stating the obvious?

gaunty

As for CAA NZ investigating Air NZ, who are you kidding. Air NZ ARE CAA NZ!

This will be happening more often in Australian skies if VB and QF succeed in removing LAMEs from the Transit Inspection. By the way, I'm all for an investigation of the Engineers who supposedly certified this maintenance

Clarrie me old

I'm way on the wrong side of 50 infact 56 next Mon, so I'm always confused.:rolleyes: :D

I take your point re the QF "incident" and without appearing to defend QF it was a different type of, but nonetheless worrying event, symptomatic of the pressure they are under.

The AirNZ one has the distinct aroma of dumb carelessness on behalf of the maintenance chappies post inspection.
Dual sign offs are supposed to be the last line of defence in the workshop.

Probably sums it up.

It's actually every where.:mad:

The gaunty limousine came out of a biggish service by the quality manufacturers "factory trained" dealer the other day with an under engine air dam ($250) fixed by only one screw (first two turns), the other 7 must have fallen out of their own accord, which self destructed on the freeway a few minutes later and during the return to the shop, the power steering went all erratic due to lack of fluid, drained and flushed but not refilled. Thinking things could not get any worse a component in the right brake caliper mechanism that had been disturbed during pad replacement, failed due to a complete lack of lubrication, an item called up in the inspections, but never performed in any of the 9 inspections signed off.
After some short lived attempts at deflecting the gaunty wrath including a suggestion that I was becoming a little emotional about the $1500 I had just paid them for this 'n that, they agreed to "have a look at it".
All the while the "highly factory trained technician", as they are called now, who had worked on the vehicle, continued to protest his innocence.:rolleyes:
A call to the dealer principal got matters sorted pretty quick.

:confused: thats me.

The really scary bit was that whilst relating the fracas to my family that night over dinner it was suggested by the youngsters that I should "handle" it and "get a life".

Their view being that in the scheme of life it was not one of the "biggies" and perhaps they are right.:eek:

It would appear that the end results of the new fangled glorification of mediocrity that has been allowed to insidiously
creep into so many fields of endeavour in the near past are now
showing up in an ever increasing number of incidents of this
nature. Sympathise with your car problems Gaunty, had the same problem just yesterday, checklist came out with battery
fluid checked and ticked, just checked it myself for no reason,in two of the cells the plates were dry.
:confused:

on the same note, bought a supercharger brand new that turned up last week with manufacturing damage. Why send it out when it would have taken 5 minutes at the factory to check before packing :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I guess, for the good of the airline, they had to cut that part adrift.....:rolleyes: