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On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:18:57 -0600, (the Legend of
LAX) wrote:


The QANTAS affair. Here you see fully half of their A380s grounded at LAX, in various stages of engine inspection/repair/replacement.
This may be a dumb question, but why is Qantas/Airbus/Rolls Royce
doing major maintenance at LAX? Don't they have a maintenace base in
Oz?
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On 12/30/2010 4:04 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:18:57 -0600, (the Legend of
LAX) wrote:


The QANTAS affair. Here you see fully half of their A380s grounded at LAX, in various stages of engine inspection/repair/replacement.
This may be a dumb question, but why is Qantas/Airbus/Rolls Royce
doing major maintenance at LAX? Don't they have a maintenace base in
Oz?
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My email is JohnMee3AT comcast.net, not whatever is in the header

QANTAS grounded all of their A380s immediately after one had a
catastrophic engine failure in Singapore. Three were at LAX (or at least
made their way there), where they performed the engine
inspections/repairs. Other carriers chose not to take such extreme measures.

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Dale G Elhardt
Cypress Ca
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On 1/1/2011 5:28 PM, wrote:


I was just wondering why they didn't perform the change at their own
maintenance base, as I don't imagine that they were all in LAX at the
time of the grounding...

Actually, they were. The grounding was immediate. They didn't want to
ferry the aircraft home.


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Dale G Elhardt
Cypress Ca
I welcome change. But I prefer bills.
http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=7702

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:08:07 -0800, the Legend of LAX
wrote:

On 12/30/2010 4:04 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:18:57 -0600, (the Legend of
LAX) wrote:


The QANTAS affair. Here you see fully half of their A380s grounded at LAX, in various stages of engine inspection/repair/replacement.
This may be a dumb question, but why is Qantas/Airbus/Rolls Royce
doing major maintenance at LAX? Don't they have a maintenace base in
Oz?
------------------------------------------
My email is JohnMee3AT comcast.net, not whatever is in the header

QANTAS grounded all of their A380s immediately after one had a
catastrophic engine failure in Singapore. Three were at LAX (or at least
made their way there), where they performed the engine
inspections/repairs. Other carriers chose not to take such extreme measures.

I was just wondering why they didn't perform the change at their own
maintenance base, as I don't imagine that they were all in LAX at the
time of the grounding...

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My email is JohnMee3 AT comcast.net, not whatever is in the header