A300 Maintenance Problems

[MiAAmi]

5 A300 cancellations from JFK already today (all full flights). Flights running hours and hours if not next day late. Whats being done to correct the maintenance problems with the A300? The sequences with the A300 are a nightmare.

 

[jimntx]

You are mistaken. There are no maintenance problems with the Scarebus (I meant Airbus. Did I say that in my outside voice?) If there were any problems, management would be right there to appoint a CEL team to investigate the problem and propose solutions. 🙄

 

[The Goose]

You are mistaken. There are no maintenance problems with the Scarebus (I meant Airbus. Did I say that in my outside voice?) If there were any problems, management would be right there to appoint a CEL team to investigate the problem and propose solutions. 🙄

The airplane is designed similar to Douglas (minimal supporting structure) but heavier (less flexible). Add to this the harder grade of aluminum in the structural components (7079), and the entire aircraft is a huge structural crack waiting to happen.

A friend commented after the Scarebus went into Jamaica Bay (NYC) that he was shocked there was no metal in the 6 attach points for the verticle stabilizer that failed and sent the airplane down. All of their junkers (no pun intended) are built this way.

Anyone care to guess as to when material failure (and the inevitable shortcuts taken when the beast got behind schedule) will bite the A380's tailfeathers?

 

[eolesen]

I love pointing out to my Airbus supporter friends how many examples of 30+ year old Boeing, Douglas, and Fokker aircraft there are operating in various corners of the world, yet there are so few examples of 20+ year old Airbii...

 

[Hopeful]

I love pointing out to my Airbus supporter friends how many examples of 30+ year old Boeing, Douglas, and Fokker aircraft there are operating in various corners of the world, yet there are so few examples of 20+ year old Airbii...

I agree, although with exception of the Fokkers we used to operate. you can't beat a Boeing or a Douglas. I have worked overhaul years ago and I can tell you that structurally the A300 is inferior to Boeing and then Douglas. Boeing systems and electrical/electronics are less sensitive and in my personal opinion being as line mechanic, more reliable as well.

By the way, 16 A300 are supposed to head to the desert in September....

 

[The Goose]

I love pointing out to my Airbus supporter friends how many examples of 30+ year old Boeing, Douglas, and Fokker aircraft there are operating in various corners of the world, yet there are so few examples of 20+ year old Airbii...

I dearly love pointing out to supporters of anything but Boeing the Aloha incident (the 737 that blew it's crownskin) - had that been anything built by Airbus OR Douglas (due to their similar beliefs in structures), the people on the 73 when it landed wouldn't have been around any longer as the entire structure would have folded on itself and gone in the drink.

 

[Hopeful]

I dearly love pointing out to supporters of anything but Boeing the Aloha incident (the 737 that blew it's crownskin) - had that been anything built by Airbus OR Douglas (due to their similar beliefs in structures), the people on the 73 when it landed wouldn't have been around any longer as the entire structure would have folded on itself and gone in the drink.

Hate to bring it up, but tail sections should not fall off aircraft no matter what forces pilots apply to rudder...

 

[eolesen]

And when you pull back on the yoke, the computer shouldn't override your thought process and force you into a forest....

 

[TIME FOR CHANGE]

5 A300 cancellations from JFK already today (all full flights). Flights running hours and hours if not next day late. Whats being done to correct the maintenance problems with the A300? The sequences with the A300 are a nightmare.

Not to worry the boyz in NYC will be "pulling together" all should be back to normal when the contract gets settled
Not sure when that will be.

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

Hate to bring it up, but tail sections should not fall off aircraft no matter what forces pilots apply to rudder...

Tail sections,like the rudder,should not produce uncommanded movements that cause the aircraft to roll over and dive into the ground. UNITED Boeing 737,USAIR Boeing 737, and COPA Airlines Boeing 737.

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

And when you pull back on the yoke, the computer shouldn't override your thought process and force you into a forest....

Yeah those pesky computers. You command the engines to provide more power and the FADEC says NO and your Boeing 777 winds up smashed on the Heathrow runway.

 

[CubsFanJohn]

AA needs to replace those A300's ASAP. Just think if AA had ordered the 787 early enough to be fairly up in the line and it had been ontime they could have started replacing them fairly quickly.

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

AIRBUS A300 after being hit by a missle- Landed safely

 

[777 fixer]

Yeah those pesky computers. You command the engines to provide more power and the FADEC says NO and your Boeing 777 winds up smashed on the Heathrow runway.

In the case of the BA 777 it's looking more and more like a fuel issue, not a FADEC issue.

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

Boeing 747 after being hit by a missle, oh that's right this was caused by defective wiring.