"Minor" paperwork delays flight by 50 mins...

[day-heg]

Hi all, wonder if anyone could shed some light...
I'm currently sat on a DJ A330 on the tarmac at SYD, should have departed for MEL 45 mins ago.
We've been delayed by what the pilot has described as "very minor paperwork details, crossing t's and dotting i's".
He said he didn't find out about it until 10 mns before scheduled push back, currently, delays are expected to be another 5 minutes.

Any ideas, any insights what such paperwork could be and how it could take so long to fix....

Cheers!
D-H.

 

[nlagalle]

Hi all, wonder if anyone could shed some light...
I'm currently sat on a DJ A330 on the tarmac at SYD, should have departed for MEL 45 mins ago.
We've been delayed by what the pilot has described as "very minor paperwork details, crossing t's and dotting i's".
He said he didn't find out about it until 10 mns before scheduled push back, currently, delays are expected to be another 5 minutes.

Any ideas, any insights what such paperwork could be and how it could take so long to fix....

Cheers!
D-H.

Sure it was an A330 going to MEL? isn't it only flying SYD-PER?

Paperwork could involve the load sheets, maintenance release etc.

 

[markis10]

Sure it was an A330 going to MEL? isn't it only flying SYD-PER?

Paperwork could involve the load sheets, maintenance release etc.

The A330 does a run to MEL! And the minor paperwork is probably the load sheets with weights etc, minor if you get it right, major if you get it wrong as one airline found out in MEL a few years back!

 

[day-heg]

I hope I'm going to MEL, that's where I'd really like to go!
I believe they to a hop to Melbourne every week cos that's where the maintenance base is.
It's deffo an A330, lots of seats and too many aisles to be a 737!

 

[loobloke]

Had my redeye MEL-DRW delayed by like what seemed like over an hour for the same reason. Then finally some young guy in a fluro vest came up with a clip board, and then off we went.

I was sitting in row 2 on a fully loaded aircraft and they had the door open and I was freezing to death :-|

 

[day-heg]

Update.... flight canx.
Very serious minor paperwork.
In the meantime, I'm back in the Lounge...

 

[Jack Melon]

This is why we have a 30m in cut off!! . Anyway it could be weather, dispatch, weights, baggage, air traffic control anything.

 

[VMAN]

Amazing, 60 tonne airplane grounded by 100 grams of paper

 

[markis10]

Amazing, 60 tonne airplane grounded by 100 grams of paper

Maybe that explains it, empty weight of an A330 is 120 tonne, what fell off ?

 

[Hvr]

Amazing, 60 tonne airplane grounded by 100 grams of paper

And if something goes wrong it means the blame can be sheeted home. Then they get reamed out.