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To: Julius Wong who wrote (208969)11/15/2024 10:54:54 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 219173
 
re <<Boeing>>
... I have for some time thought the bunch at BA be f*cktards, and I stand corrected

scmp.com

Qantas Airbus A380 flew for 294 hours with tool left inside engine
Published: 11:24am, 16 Nov 2024


An investigation by Australia revealed that the device had been inside one of the plane’s four engines since last December

A Qantas Airbus A380 flew for hundreds of hours before it was discovered a tool had been left inside one of its engines.

The incident came to light on Thursday in an Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation report.

It said that a nylon tool, 1.25 metres (4 feet) long, was discovered wedged inside the engine during a scheduled maintenance check in Los Angeles on January 1.

The California city is one of four destinations served by the Australian flag carrier’s A380 jets.

The ATSB investigation found that the tool had been inside one of the plane’s four engines since a previous maintenance check on December 6 last year.

It added that the superjumbo jet had flown 34 cycles, or 294 hours, with the nylon tool in the engine.

In its conclusion, the report said, “Foreign object debris and damage can pose a significant threat to the safe operation of aircraft.”

The investigation said that an engineer left the tool in the engine inlet because they believed it would be needed by somebody else later. Subsequent inspections after their task failed to spot the tool.

“The ATSB investigation found that maintenance engineers did not notice the tool had been left in the engine’s low-pressure compressor case when conducting checks for foreign objects at the completion of the borescope inspection task,” ATSB Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell said.

“Further, maintenance engineers did not commence the lost tool procedure once the tool had been identified as missing, and the certifying engineer released the aircraft for service with the tool unaccounted for.”

After the tool was discovered, Qantas Engineering briefed staff on the importance of returning all tools, the ATSB said.

Qantas did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, sent outside normal Australian working hours.



To: Julius Wong who wrote (208969)11/16/2024 12:41:30 AM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 219173
 
re <<Boeing>> I have always appreciated Russian machines for their look of pure functional nastiness
F35
J20

Su57



To: Julius Wong who wrote (208969)11/16/2024 6:49:18 AM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 219173
 
This episode features crop of this day, showing gadgets in shopping mall everyone might want to quickly buy and put to use
Especially weird are Mines that fly to new coordinates to plug the gap even as the opposition clears other mines in the same field




To: Julius Wong who wrote (208969)11/16/2024 7:02:17 AM
From: TobagoJack1 Recommendation

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  Respond to of 219173
 
Forget robot dogs sporting automatic rifles
Say hello to robot thingnamajig carrying Gatling gun. Imagine a pack of them going at speed
Supposedly features self-destruct feature when no longer in touch
Little wonder much Russian presence at the show, including Shoigu looking intent
A division of the thingnamajigs can provide much solutions to any allegedly frozen contact line, I imagine, especially if focused on nighttime storming operations