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Rapid decompression forces emergency landing
PHOENIX (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix was diverted Friday to a military base in Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane, federal officials said. Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation A . . . (flightaware.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Airbus has not been around along enough to get into the Aging Aircraft program. If I was to guess, they will probably be worse than boeing. Just a guess and my opinion.
sparkie624 do you know if any of Airbuses from the small 318 all the way to the 340 series have had any kind of fuselage gapping like this 737-300's and the American 757 out of MIA last year. I know for a fact that Airbus had two serious problems with composite rudders (an American A300 plunged to the ground in Brooklyn when the rudder snapped killing 260 people on board plus 5 on the ground), also some had cracks in the main landing gear a 330 I guess.
Thanks for all these knowledgeable posts. That's what makes FlightAware such a useful site.
Food for thought: I know that SWA pushes beyond believe to do maintenance quickly. A good example is a Wheel Assy Change in 10 minutes, Brake Change in 20 minutes. That is the parameters that I was given while working for them. They push to get everything done now. Not efficiently, just fast and get it done. With this in mind, how could NDT inspections be done on 67 planes that fox news says has been inspected and found good and returned to service in 2 days. They have a total of 4 Maintenance bases, that is to do more than 17 detailed NDT inspections of these aircraft with only 3 other faults found. My question, HOW CAN THEY DO THE INSPECTIONS PROPERLY. There are only a finite number of inspectors NDT qualified and that would be spending less than 1 1/2 hours per plane to complete these inspections.
I would like to hear from an NDT person as to how this is possible to cover the entire top of the fuselage of each of these planes in less than 1 1/2 hours and do it effectivly? I am sure that supervison is standing by saying hurry up, this has to be fixed. It's costing us money.
I would like to hear from an NDT person as to how this is possible to cover the entire top of the fuselage of each of these planes in less than 1 1/2 hours and do it effectivly? I am sure that supervison is standing by saying hurry up, this has to be fixed. It's costing us money.
I think it is 80,000 hours or cycles, which ever comes first. Piedmont Regional Airine flying Dash 8 a/c have quite a few planes at 79000 hours and cycles. Different planes have different specs, but I think most are around 80,000. Once it passes a certain amount of hours or cycles, then it must enter an aging a/c program for progressing inspections to detect items such as what happened to SWA on both occassions and also why they got fined for not doing the inspections properly.
I personnally look at SWA as a minimums airline. Minimum cost, Minimum service, Minimum Maintenance.
I personnally look at SWA as a minimums airline. Minimum cost, Minimum service, Minimum Maintenance.
Sparkie624 what is the design limitation for the 737 as issued by Boeing, it must be something like say 50,000 cycles or 50,000 hours whichever comes first but of course full compliance with O&M directives is an absolute must. I know that these parameters are issued for military aircraft whose useful lives were extended by structural modifications, the F-15, F-18 (Canada and Australia), P-3, C-5 come to mind but of course there are other types too.