....Aluminum rivets, used in the plane's front body, appeared to be too weak to sustain large pressure, the newspaper said, adding that the European Air Safety Authority (EASA) was considering orders for the six most critical rivets to be replaced with parts made of stronger titanium. (www.dw.de) 更多...
The engine fell off... Don't worry, that's no big deal! The wings are starting to crack... Don't worry, that's no big deal! The rivets can't withstand pressure... Don't worry, that's no big deal!
TO HELL WITH IT -just give me the boeings of a earlier era, 707,727 or douglases 8, 9. make the avonics/engines effecienct. THATS ALL WE NEED. this new monster stuff is all money. talking to passengers they do not see the need for the new stuff. myself i'll take the DC-3 anytime
I have said this before and won´t mind saying it again: in their haste to send their respective planes to their very aggravated and irate customers due to the 2-3 year delays Boeing and Airbus did not do a complete and thorough job specially on the 380 which is hitting the headlines more often and in not quite positive notes.
Well, so much for your criticism of the A380 which has been operating since 2007. How would you like to be on the maiden revenue flight and the landing gear would not deploy when it reached the destination??? Surprise surprise it is the ANA Boeing 787 Dreamliner!!!!
It is typical that when there is something wrong with a Boeing plane it is not blown out of proportion but when it is an Airbus plane they make a mountain out of a mole hill. I think an undercarriage failing to engage on landing is Very Serious and it happened to The much publicised Dreamliner 787 should be Top Headlines but it was not!!Why? Another Boeing plane the Boeing 747-8 intercontinental, Boeing had to disable the tail tank to get the plane into service, a big problem in my opinion when something is not working and it had to disable it while thye find a solution but it is still being flown and why no Big Issue? Because it is Boeing!!!
Blown out of proportion? I think the article said "a sudden drop in cabin pressure could cause the rivets to break, and subsequently the nose of the superjumbo to come off". That sounds it might be less survivable than a landing gear that doesn't deploy.
Well a nose cone coming off is less serious than a the landing not deploying. At the moment it is something that they found through on going improvement and not something that happened, whereas the landing gear situation is factual not what could happen!!!
I don't think so as it has been the most stringent flight tested commercial plane prior to ceritifcation. The current issue about the rivets is more an ongoing improvement than one of safety. Talking of rivets, how many rivets and how in how many planes did Boeing had to replace on their flagship 787 Dreamliner? Millions and in all their production planes not just 6 as on the A380 !!!!
