Kev3188
Veteran
I was told that we have lost three MLG tires on the 9's in the past two weeks.
That's three too many. Tell "your boys" to get their sh$t together before people die. :angry:
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I was told that we have lost three MLG tires on the 9's in the past two weeks.
...I was told that we have lost three MLG tires on the 9's in the past two weeks.... As of now all 9 break and tire changes require RII inspections...It just seems to me that any mechanic should be able to look at it and say "hey something just isn't right here and discover their blunder."
The problem is the caliber of mechanics...er SCABs that are working on nwa aircraft. MM says torque to 90 then they torque to 90. to hell with these little bolts. besides once you put the cover on everything looks fine. <_< . I also find it laughable that they need an RII inspection on a wheel change. ROFLMAO!
At US Airways, we never had a problem with DC-9 tires coming off and AMFA does not fix airplanes, their members did.We might have broke AMFA's record. It is a problem that will be corrected just as it was corrected when AMFA had their rash of 9 tires falling off. I would be willing to bet this has happened at every airline that operates the 9.
Why would you need to see the job done incorrectly in order to understand that somethings not right?I would really like to see where the axle-nut sits when torqued without the spacer. It just seems to me that any mechanic should be able to look at it and say "hey something just isn't right here and discover their blunder." I don't know that for sure though, I've never seen what one looks like with out the spacer.
Why would you need to see the job done incorrectly in order to understand that somethings not right?
NWA does'nt provide you SCABS access to M.M. Procedures?
...We might have broke AMFA's record....It is a problem that will be corrected just as it was corrected when AMFA had their rash of 9 tires falling off. I would be willing to bet this has happened at every airline that operates the 9. I do agree with you guys though that these are some ignorant mistakes.
The exact reply I would expect from a hack SCABYes they do local are you so ignorant not to realize that apparently someone left the spacer out of the maintenance manual provided to this particular mechanic.
"AMFA's record" I am referring to the rash of DC-9 tires you guys had coming off about two or three years ago. You do recall that don't you? I do not mean any disrespect towards you but these AA Guys have pumped you AMFA Boys up into Mechanical Gods. You should have been here when all of this first started, it was pretty nasty to say the least.I'm not following you where you say AMFA's record? When AMFA began representation at nwa no personel changed. The same mechanics were there the next day doing the same job they were doing all along. Unlike when the AMFA struck and replacement SCABs came on the property to do our work. These losers probably never changed a tire on a large aircraft. And who is helping them change them? The managers and skip-mechanic/manager/SCABs. The managers who couldn't function as mechanics and jumped ship to mgt before the strike.
Its the ill-trained, aided by the incompetant, smoothed over by the untrustworthy and then paid by the Barons to do sub-standard work. And where is the FAA in all this? Curiously not in the picture.
"These losers probably never changed a tire on a large aircraft."
Its the ill-trained, aided by the incompetant, smoothed over by the untrustworthy and then paid by the Barons to do sub-standard work. And where is the FAA in all this? Curiously not in the picture.
I would just like to see if there is a big difference in the way the finished job looks if it is done incorrectly... apparently someone left the spacer out of the maintenance manual provided to this particular mechanic...
Relax Don it was a joke. I see you are one of those union spin-miesters yourself. Do they send you guys to some type of training camp for that as a prerequisite to becoming a unionist?...Typical of you to blame the Maintenance Manual...all the parts are there dope and their in the IPC too.
"AMFA's record" I am referring to the rash of DC-9 tires you guys had coming off about two or three years ago. You do recall that don't you?"
No I don't recall any "rash" of tires falling off nwa aircraft...17 years with nwa...nope...can't recall any rash.
"These Losers as you call them have kept the same airline going with less than a third of the numbers you guys had."
Thanks to Bobby DePace and the IAM doing your job on days and afternoons and the MEL book, I'm sure you think you are handling it just fine.
"...Do you really believe that line of BS Don? Many of your buddies are here did they also lose their Mechanical Godhood when they crossed the line?
I don't have any "buddies" anymore working at nwa in DTW. Any mechanical professionalism they had they is moot now since they stabbed us in the back by crossing.
"...As far as the FAA goes they were here in force scrutinizing everything. Five ramp checks Don, that is what I went through. Five ramp checks in less that three months and there was nothing nice about none of them...."
It was my understanding that the FAA was doing all of your paper work for you SCABs in the beginnning since you "didn't know the aircraft and weren't familiar with the computer system"
Right before the strike we couldn't get a part to clear an MEL...nwa was sitting on them in hangar 2 and when the SCABs came in guess what?, all the parts were available to fix the MELs so the count went down...yea, miraculous...You guys slapped a part on the aircraft and some manager came behind you and whipped the log book...
Chicago express, Aerogenisis, and I believe timco also required an rii. I dont want to have to look over the shoulder of every mech out there, but if thats what it takes so be it. I also have pased word to the other inspecters to try and keep an eye out whenever a tire change is being done.US AIR had the same problem on the F100. A tire change was an RII
Item until they welded the spacer to the nut.