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Mr Carpet
Our JAR MEL permits departure provide other navigation sources (e.g. paper charts) are up to date.
Real or not, does anybody know the legalities of flying with an out of date database in FAA and JAR land?
"one of five fire suppression bottles"
was missed in previous regular inspections by United of 777 cargo bay fire systems, according to the news story we are running tomorrow.
Does this mean whoever wrote up United's inspection routines "forgot" to list one bottle in the instructions, and only listed 4 for the mx to check?
Ooops!
FTR: Denver had 2 out of 4 UA777 flights cancelled today (both to ORD), and United says it had done the work on half the fleet worldwide (26 of 52) by late afternoon. For some later flights, the planes were back on line in time, some they found replacement equipment for of another type, and some they put pax onto other lines.
Does this mean whoever wrote up United's inspection routines "forgot" to list one bottle in the instructions, and only listed 4 for the mx to check?
Ooops!
FTR: Denver had 2 out of 4 UA777 flights cancelled today (both to ORD), and United says it had done the work on half the fleet worldwide (26 of 52) by late afternoon. For some later flights, the planes were back on line in time, some they found replacement equipment for of another type, and some they put pax onto other lines.
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I am reading that UAL, after continuing research into the issue, now states that the missed inspection is actually a failure of omission in the Boeing manual...it was missed back then by Boeing, FAA, and UA......and that there may be other carriers caught in this. FYI AP is reporting 36 are done as of late this afternoon.
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The facts of the matter are that UAL failed to update their procedures after a revision to the AMM that was made by Boeing in Jan 2007. There is no evidence that Boeing or any other operator has missed anything.
