A Qantas A380 has been grounded after a door on the plane was almost ripped off in a hangar during a routine maintenance check at Sydney Airport.
A door on a Qantas A380 was almost torn off the plane after it rolled into scaffolding in a hangar following a routine maintenance check at Sydney Airport on Friday.
The damaged A380 “sustained some damage inside the hangar” during maintenance, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Flight QF7 from Sydney to Dallas on Saturday afternoon and return flight QF8 that was due to leave Dallas on Sunday (AEST) have been cancelled because of the incident.
“We are working to minimise impacts to our customers and we apologise for any delays,” a Qantas spokesperson said in a statement.
Passengers who had their flights cancelled have been re-booked on unaffected services.
The damaged A380 has joined two other grounded aircrafts undergoing refurbishment in Brisbane and Abu Dhabi, The Herald reports.
It is expected to take at least two weeks for the damaged plane to be fixed.
A door on a Qantas A380 was almost torn off the plane after it rolled into scaffolding in a hangar.Source:Supplied
This comes just days after the airline confirmed three of it 737s would be taken out of service for repairs after they were found to have hairline cracks in the “pickle fork” — the part that attached the plane’s fuselage to the wing structure.
The discovery of the cracks came during an inspection of 33 of the airline’s Boeing 737 aircraft.
“We believe we can minimise the impact on customers,” Qantas Domestic chief executive Andrew David said this morning.
“We will have to make minor schedule changes. We don’t believe they will be significant. We are confident we can minimise the impact to our customers. We are confident we will get the aircraft flying by the end of the calendar year.”
It will take engineers at least two weeks to fix the damaged A380.Source:AFP
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