Posted on 03/11/2024 10:03:58 PM PDT by libh8er
A San Francisco-bound United Airlines jet was forced to turn back to Sydney, Australia Monday after a “maintenance issue,” officials said.
“On Monday, March 11 United flight 830 from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport to San Francisco International Airport returned to Sydney due to a maintenance issue,” United Airlines officials told the Chronicle in a statement. “The plane landed safely and passengers deplaned normally at the gate. We provided accommodation overnight for passengers and rebooked them to San Francisco.”
The plane left Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport at 12:01 p.m. (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) en route to SFO and returned just two and a half hours later, according to flightaware records. The plane, a Boeing 777-300, was carrying 167 passengers and 16 crew members, United Airlines officials said.
The airline said it would investigate Monday’s incident, in addition to several incidents over the past week. “We take every safety event seriously and will investigate each of the incidents that occurred this week to understand what happened and learn from them,” airline officials said. “Much of this work is conducted together with the manufacturers, the FAA, and the NTSB as well as with the manufacturers of individual components. While this work is ongoing, each of these events is distinct and unrelated to one another. Safety is our top priority, and we’ll continue to do everything we can to keep our customers and employees safe.”
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Hydraulics, wheel assy, tire seems to be giving off smoke.
Just a lovely thing all around.
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Looks like they have some new hires at SFO that need to be fired.
When my son went to school as a mechanic for these jets, only about 25-30% completed the curriculum because of how intense it was, including the multiple FAA board tests required to get a certificate. On top of it, Each airline will train in their own planes. 2 mechanics normally always work together. Never has there been an issue on that airline.
I’m wondering if they loosened the FAA certificate requirements or something and a group of new hires are the cause. Too many problems.
If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going!
I was a ‘Flight Line Maintenance Mechanic’ for 25 years. I went to an FAA approved school and received my A&P license.
But note an A&P ticket is just a ‘license to learn’. I had to pay my dues and work for a commuter with props, back to school to learn avionics before getting hired by a major airline.
Today, airlines are suffering from staffing shortages at all levels. A person can now get hired right out of A&P school right into a major airline.
Or it's intentional.
Is maintenance being done in Pakistan? Or any -stan? Allahu ackbar!
DC-3/C-47 or C-130 too close to call.
Those small planes are dirty work. I recall when he worked on them before he got hired by the airline.
Does look like hydraulic fluid spraying from the aft right brake, #12. When the plane lands you can see that the gear doors are still down, so that hydraulic system that powers gear door retraction is probably empty. After parking the #12 brake is smoking, probably due to all the hydraulic fluid cooking off it. That brake would still function because the alternate braking hydraulic system would supply fluid power. The Boeing 777 has 3 hydraulic systems, so the brake and steering system have two different sources for power.
You certified a gem. It was my favorite to fly.
I hold many aviation records in that airplane. That’s a shallow boast. Many of us share that record. Newark to Hong Kong was the longest commercial airline flight for a long time until Singapore Airlines started flying JFK-SIN.
My all time overall favorite is the 757-200. It looks sexy, is very capable, and you flew it like you were wearing it like a glove.
Now the DC-3 was fun and all, but it was a handful to fly.
EC
Internally the 757-200 is considered the best airplane, aerodynamically, Boeing ever designed and built.
The 777 is generally more comfortable and has better food but it can not land and take of from a grassy postage stamp in the middle of Nowhereville.
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