QANTAS safety review actions

[oz_mark]

CASA media release - Monday 1 September 2008


Media release - QANTAS safety review actions

CASA wants Qantas to make a range of improvements to the way it manages and delivers aircraft maintenance following a special review carried out by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

CASA has told the airline to produce a plan to address deficiencies in meeting some of its own maintenance performance targets.
At the same time Qantas will examine whether the existing lines of authority and control over maintenance within the airline are delivering the best possible outcomes.

While these actions are under way CASA will be conducting two additional intensive audits of Qantas.

The first will be a full maintenance audit of one aircraft of each major aircraft type in the Qantas fleet – a 747-400, 737-400 and 767-300. This will involve checking all maintenance documentation for each of these aircraft to see it has been completed, as well as physically examining the aircraft on the ground.

 

[JohnK]

Has QF really been cutting corners or are the maintenance issues related more to flow on effect from the go slow by engineers back in June/July?

 

[oz_mark]

Has QF really been cutting corners or are the maintenance issues related more to flow on effect from the go slow by engineers back in June/July?

The reality is that nobody is squeaky clean, and if you look under the covers anywhere, you will usually find something. In this case, however, we don't knowwhat specific targets were nt being met but perhaps some of them relate to the strike. It was reported that the number of permissable defects certinly rose during the time of the strike.

There was also the directive that got missed.