Too short?

Shoulda used the Enzyte.

Wonder if it was an ETOPS problem?

I'll wait for the black box info.
Nothing makes sense on this one.

Ah yes, I'd seen this on CNN yesterday during my lunch break. I can't recall if the runway was obstructed by weather... did their instrument assists fail?

Saw this on my way to the airport. Quote of the day, "It's a miracle. The man deserves a medal as big as a frying pan." speaking of the pilot... Black box should prove interesting although if he is British he probably mumbles horribly and we'll need an Indian translator to make sense of it.

Heard it was engine failure as of this afternoon.

Bush (the ULTIMATE outsourcer) and his corporate buddies in the airlines have now outsourced to third world countries more than half of the major maintenance of the airlines. AGAIN, Bush has slashed fund to the FAA (like he has done to ALL our safety and protection agencies) and all is done for corporate profit. Bush and his corporate buddies fly in private jets so they could care less. YOU are the one in danger because of their corporate greed.

Outsourcing of airplane maintenance work Washington Post

MARGARET WARNER: And tell also little more about the outsourcing. I was surprised to read that not only are 50 or 60 percent of the repair work in many of these airlines now being outsourced, but some overseas. What kind of repair work, and to whom?

SARA GOO: That's right, in the past few years U.S. carriers have closed 42 maintenance facilities in the United States. A lot of that work is going to third party vendors in this country, but a lot of it also is going overseas to places like Asia and in Europe, where the labor rates are a lot more cost-effective for the airlines. And a lot of the work that's going overseas is really the labor intensive work where the airlines have to strip down the air carriers every couple of years as they age.

The work that has remained, though, is a lot of the high-tech maintenance, such as engine repairs, and, you know, this is a global environment where in fact some carriers in the United States are even in sourcing some of that work, that is to say doing that work for foreign carriers in the United States. So just because it's a third party maintenance doesn't mean that it's unsafe necessarily. But the report found that there are an inadequate number of FAA inspectors whose job it is to oversee this work overseas, and shifting to keep up with this trend.

MARGARET WARNER: So tell us what else, in what other ways, did the IG find that the FAA inspectors and inspection system is falling short in terms of taking into account these changes?

SARA GOO: Well, the inspector general looked at other things such as, you know, for example, 90 percent of all the maintenance work that is done on airplanes is done overnight, obviously when the planes are not flying. Yet the FAA's inspectors only spend about 10 percent of their total time on the job during that period.

They also looked at other things, such as whether they have enough inspectors; the FAA is cutting because of budget cuts the number of inspectors they have. They have several thousand, but I think that number is going to go down by a couple hundred or two this year just alone. So the real question is whether they're managing these new safety challenges and putting the resources where they need to be.

MARGARET WARNER: And did the IG also have some criticisms about how timely or untimely the FAA is in taking into account or counting as a risk factor a change that might occur with an airline?

Let's say an airline suddenly downsizes and closes several plants, or suddenly expands for that matter and adds a lot of new routes and new people. Wasn't the IG saying that in the system that the FAA has devised for assessing risk, that isn't quickly accounted for?
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MARGARET WARNER: All right, Sara Goo of the Washington Post, thank you so much.

Heard it was engine failure as of this afternoon.

WHERE was this engine built.
WHO built this engine.

WHO maintenanced this engine

Recognition for an excellent job in bringing in this plane safely should go to the two pilots (the co-pilot was the one who was taking the landing) as it was their skill and experience which are probably the reason they are all alive today.

The engines went dead. No electrical power.
Hopefully the truth of where this plane was made, exactly which company did the maintenance and where it was done will not be covered up and brushed under the rug.

You may say you don't fly so you don't care but these jets fly over your homes.

DEMAND that Bush stop slashing funding to the FAA and DEMAND that Bush stop rewarding these corporations (via his tax incentives) for outsourcing maintenance and other extremely important airline safety issues which should be done by ONLY by U.S. standard and qualified/regulated maintenance engineers.

This was a British airlines this time but it's just a matter of time until Bush's downsizing of our government (cutting funding and cutting back on FAA inspectors) and Bush's allowing all these corporations to do everything on the cheap (i.e., outsourcing airline maintenance)-- not to mention writing their own federal rules and regulations -- finally come home to roost.

I knew it ... Bush did it.

I knew it ... Bush did it.

I suppose you'd rather wait until bloody bodies from a crashed airliner are found on your rooftop and scattered across your front yard before you'd demand Bush stop slashing funds for FAA inspectors and giving tax incentives for the outsourcing of major airline maintenance to third world mechanics? Figures.

Chrisd: You do realise it was a BRITISH Airways plane.

Maybe it was Blair's fault!

Chris, Key word today is FADEC.
The redundant computers fly the plane
and control all engines parameters on 777.
Wait until the results, anything else media
wise is pure garbage.

Chris, Key word today is FADEC.
The redundant computers fly the plane
and control all engines parameters on 777.

From what I read they overrode the autopilot, and even manual throttle controls failed.

CHRIS

Thanks for posting that interview. Very enlightening