JQ may have broken second 787 in Cairns last week

[SeatBackForward]

This is off topic with respect to Jetstar hard landings, but comes from the Steve Purvinas x-file and doesn't quite deserve its own thread. In tonight's Twitter entertainment, Mr Purvinas leverages a tweet by Bob Katter to argue that all aircraft should be maintained by Australians because Boeing maintenance manuals are only provided in English, and only Australians understand English well enough to read the manuals.
https://twitter.com/RealBobKatter/status/441469549271973888

Someone should remind him where Airbuses are manufactured. ?

 

[Isochronous]

Someone should remind him where Airbuses are manufactured. ?

Do CX planes fall out of the sky because the maintenance is done by Cantonese-speaking engineers at HAECO?

 

[harvyk]

Do CX planes fall out of the sky because the maintenance is done by Cantonese-speaking engineers at HAECO?

Of course they do, gee there is not a day which goes by when I don't have to jump out of the way lest I want a 777 to fall on my head...

 

[jsoprano]

This is off topic with respect to Jetstar hard landings, but comes from the Steve Purvinas x-file and doesn't quite deserve its own thread. In tonight's Twitter entertainment, Mr Purvinas leverages a tweet by Bob Katter to argue that all aircraft should be maintained by Australians because Boeing maintenance manuals are only provided in English, and only Australians understand English well enough to read the manuals.

:shock: Gee, what a logic here again. So Mr Purvinas, when will you demand both QF and JQ to send all their Airbuses to Noumea or Tahiti for maintenance?

 

[harvyk]

This is off topic with respect to Jetstar hard landings, but comes from the Steve Purvinas x-file and doesn't quite deserve its own thread. In tonight's Twitter entertainment, Mr Purvinas leverages a tweet by Bob Katter to argue that all aircraft should be maintained by Australians because Boeing maintenance manuals are only provided in English, and only Australians understand English well enough to read the manuals.
https://twitter.com/RealBobKatter/status/441469549271973888

So wouldn't that mean that we should be outsourcing all our maintenance of Boeings to the states? Considering that the manuals are no doubt written in American English, and Americans will have a much stronger grasp of American English /expressions than us Australian's.

 

[mannej]

SP has been posting on the FFA FB page as of late - perhaps someone should query his comments.

Xenophobic comments like that in my opinion discredits SP's argument or any credibility that he had.

 

[TomVexille]

So wouldn't that mean that we should be outsourcing all our maintenance of Boeings to the states? Considering that the manuals are no doubt written in American English, and Americans will have a much stronger grasp of American English /expressions than us Australian's.

From what I've seen in Australia, there's plenty of people here who don't understand English rather well.