Steve Purvinas strikes again:
REPAIRING tiny cracks in the wings of Airbus's flagship A380 superjumbo will take eight weeks for each aircraft but the work does not have to be done in one go and is not urgent, the company says.
The France-based plane-maker confirmed a weekend media report on the time needed to fix the fault, but insisted there was "no necessity to immobilise the planes for eight weeks in a row''.
A spokesman told AFP the repairs could be conducted during the "heavy checks'' carried out on planes after two, four and six years of flight.
This comes despite calls for the entire A380 fleet to be grounded after cracks were found in Qantas jets earlier this year.
"We can't continue to gamble with people's lives and allow those aircraft to fly around and hope that they make it until their four-yearly inspection," Steve Purvinas, secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, said.
REPAIRING tiny cracks in the wings of Airbus's flagship A380 superjumbo will take eight weeks for each aircraft but the work does not have to be done in one go and is not urgent, the company says.
The France-based plane-maker confirmed a weekend media report on the time needed to fix the fault, but insisted there was "no necessity to immobilise the planes for eight weeks in a row''.
A spokesman told AFP the repairs could be conducted during the "heavy checks'' carried out on planes after two, four and six years of flight.
This comes despite calls for the entire A380 fleet to be grounded after cracks were found in Qantas jets earlier this year.
"We can't continue to gamble with people's lives and allow those aircraft to fly around and hope that they make it until their four-yearly inspection," Steve Purvinas, secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, said.
