Posted on 12/02/2021 8:52:48 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Almost exactly one year ago, three British Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliners sustained engine damage from foreign object debris while at Chicago O’Hare. The airline needed to perform heavy maintenance on all six engines, resulting in unforeseen costs and canceled flights. BA has now launched a suit against the city of Chicago, requesting over $3 million in damages.
In the complaint filed with a court in Illinois, BA says that while traversing the runway, the three aircraft’s engines ingested debris that had been left behind following resurfacing and expansion work on one of ORD’s terminals.
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A friend found his "Dream" job at O'hare. To have a full-time position at the airport, you need heavy clout.
The first day they told him he did too much, go watch the airplanes for a while. After a few months of watching airplanes and the people, he could not take the boredom and quit.
Sleeping in a truck is a common event at the airport.
“The city that used to work.”
All downhill since the mafia lost their clout!
So they couldn’t bother to clear the runways of debris?
It sucks when the best part of your government is run by organized crime.
Q: How many people work at O’Hare?
A: About half of them.
—”A: About half of them.”
Maybe less...
How many city works to cut a lawn?
One coming.
One going.
One shitting.
One supervising.
And one mowing.
And they did not count the many I have seen sleeping in the trucks next to the parkways.
A. A CalTrans truck.
It has been since the 50s when RJ Daley & Co ran it, and it worked well, or so people thought. So did Philly mostly, under Rizzo & Co.
—”Q. What’s orange and sleeps six?”
What a nice shot and dead on target!!!
I have a bunch of friends that are fireman. Nobody wants the airport assignment as it is all drilling, and no actual fires. They’d all much rather be at busy districts where they hit the road often.
In the complaint filed with a court in Illinois, BA says that while traversing the runway, the three aircraft’s engines ingested debris that had been left behind following resurfacing and expansion work on one of ORD’s terminals.
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This shows gross negligence bordering on criminal neglect with the resurfacing work. Foreign objects ingested into a jet engine are likely going to damage the engine. The worst situation would be one where a foreign object is ingested and it nicks a turbofan blade only to have that blade eventually shear off in flight with catastrophic effect.
That joke is at least 40 years old. Former Bay Area resident here.
Indeed their motto was it’s just business.
—”That joke is at least 40 years old. “
An oldie but goodie!
When I worked a summer for the park department, the first job our truck driver would take on was to go to the beachfront and take a nap. Later we would sit in the truck outside his girlfriends house while he went in and “visited”.
As a former jet mechanic who did plenty of FOD walkdowns, the issue is well known.
If there was construction, and no process in place to evaluate the surface of the runway for FOD before clearing flights to use that runway, then it is criminal neglect that could have resulted in death, not just damage to engines.
What I am wondering is...why just British Airways? Didn’t other airlines use that runway system during that time?
Q. What’s brown and beige and sleeps six.
A. PG&E truck.
That is from back in the day when their trucks blended in with the environment.
Bring back the Capone gang!
They were probably the most efficient and least corrupt government in Chicago.
What I am wondering is...why just British Airways? Didn’t other airlines use that runway system during that time?
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Good question. Perhaps those were taxiways only used by BA, but I would want to inspect every aircraft that rolled over that section of tarmac.
The union guy that ran the sweeper truck was on vacation. Number 2 guy only had 25 years seniority so couldn’t run it alone. ;-)
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