Grounded For Weeks

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/qantas-grounding-could-last-for-weeks-20101111-17pg7.html?from=smh_sb

Initially the A380's were to be grounded for 72 hours. Now it is grounded for weeks. What they are finding must be real bad. Those Indian engineers must have really screwed up these engines.

They are talking about an ''oil fire'' . An oil fire won't cause the engine to explode. What will cause the engine to explode is an oil leak leading to no oil in the engine. That will make the engine blow apart real quick. Common sense dictates there should be an oil light alerting the pilot to low oil pressure. My Honda Civic has an oil light. It would be assumed that the Indian engineers knew enough to put an indicator on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of airplane. Maybe I assume too much because the engine blew up and nobody knew nothing before engine parts rained down over the country side.

The solution now is ''repetitive inspections'' . Keep staring at it to see if it is about to explode. Kinda hard to do at 35 thousand feet. That is probably why leaving these planes on the ground is the wisest course of action.