Wheel falls off plane in Melbourne

[AdamC]

Maintenance practice gone wrong maybe or maybe component failure.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25840535-29277,00.html

And a great dramatisation............

Mods please delete if this isn't suppose to be in here..........

Cheers

Adam

[Nigel C]

Yep, one minute it falls off on the runway, the next if fell off taxiing towards the runway.:confused:


Firstly, are the Virgin Engineers not part of the ALAEA?

Secondly, until the investigation is complete, how does the ALAEA secretary know or speculate that a pre-departure inspection would have picked up the problem anyway?

And finally, if the DJ engineers are part of the ALAEA and the component failure was previously undetectable, then its nice of the secretary to be publicly admonishing the members who pay his wages without all of the facts.:rolleyes:

[Hugh Jarse]

Just waiting for the "I thought I was going to die" reports from the PAX :D

[Matt_L]

Matt, please do not quote the entire post above. -mod

Haha,

9 News here in Melbourne just came on with breaking news showing an E190 in a hangar that a wheel fell off a virgin 737 on saturday.

[Gerard M]

My favourite line from the reporters on the radio was "and he quoted as saying" it wasn't a problem as the plane hadn't reached the runway yet.""

Isn't a wheel falling off a problem regardless of where, especially as one news report said that it was due to a corroded axle?

[Adam P.]

It was going so well, too, until the wheels fell off...



I've been waiting for an opportunity to use that line!!!

[Arthur T]

I heard from Nova969 today that all DJ's B737s has been checked and is okay to fly again. Does it mean they grounded all B737s for the check?

And did Qantas ground their B737s for checks too?

[David Ramsay]

It was going so well, too, until the steak fell off...

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Philip Argy]

The ABC is reporting that the cause was a corroded axle. How could an axle reach such a state without being detected?

[Daniel M]

Why don't we wait for the ATSB report before we start taking abc news radio as gospel;)

[Philip Argy]

The ABC is also reporting Virgin as having confirmed the cause as axle corrosion.

[Adrian B]

A TV news article interviewed VB about the issue whilst promoting a enw deal with john Holland at YMML. Not sure of the person who was interviewed (not Brett G) and he stated te axel had corroded.

[Bernie P]

Can somebody remind me but was it axel corrosion that grounded SAS Q400 fleet, after the first collapsed landing gear in Aalborg Denmark, and then a couple of weeks later another incident (same problem)?

SAS have now gotten rid of, if not all, most of these AC now havn't they (and I am not saying, in any way, shape or form, that DJ should get rid of the AC either :D) ??

[D Chan]

Secondly, until the investigation is complete, how does the ALAEA secretary know or speculate that a pre-departure inspection would have picked up the problem anyway?

Once again this highlights the opportunism of unions to use safety incidents as ways to manipulate the public mindset.

if this happened to the flying kangaroo it would have been front page / prime time coverage.

[Steve S... 2]

Aircraft was VH-VBA.