trumpton
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Post by trumpton on May 28, 2014 14:24:23 GMT 1
GXLEA couldn't do it's Honk gong rotation because of a mouse on board. Hilarious that a single mouse could ground the mighty beast. This kind of stuff does happen every once in a while. If you think about, it's a huge safety issue. The aircraft will be thoroughly checked for any damages caused by the animal, especially the wiring. As small as it may be, it's no laughing matter. There has even been a fatal crash supposedly caused by an animal as small as a wasp. You are right. There is all manner of important things that the little fella could chew on, let alone the health risk. Personally, I'd be more worried about the cheese board.
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Baroque
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Post by Baroque on May 28, 2014 14:40:29 GMT 1
May not be helpful. If you go on bringing in progressively larger animals to scare them away, you'll end up needing that mouse to scare away an elephant and start all over again.
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sunjet
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Post by sunjet on May 28, 2014 15:41:10 GMT 1
Aircraft and any form of animal/reptilian life don't mix! I mean look at what happened with 'Snakes on a plane'....or was that not real? Reality is a blur for me these days....
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trumpton
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Post by trumpton on May 28, 2014 20:49:54 GMT 1
It is just unusual to have a flight delayed by a mouse. I understand why you could not let any airliner fly with a lost rodent deep in the bowels of the machine but do designers take this risk into consideration when creating such a sophisticated piece of modern engineering?
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philidor
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Post by philidor on May 29, 2014 0:30:34 GMT 1
Did they offer a reward for the capture of the offender ?
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smrknyt
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Post by smrknyt on Jun 13, 2014 22:04:06 GMT 1
What's going on with G-XLEA?
She hasn't flown since Monday, and BA had to substitute a 747 on Thursday's 269/268 LAX rotation & Friday's 55 JNB flight...
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Post by FabienA380 on Jun 19, 2014 0:10:52 GMT 1
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Post by helios91 on Jun 19, 2014 6:37:03 GMT 1
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smrknyt
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Post by smrknyt on Jun 19, 2014 19:47:07 GMT 1
Right...but she sat @ LHR for 5 days and missed two rotations that had to be flown with 747's... Just before this down-time, she flew a HKG rotation, but had sat idle and missed another rotation before the HKG rotation... Just wondering what might have been the issue. Usually BASource comments, but nothing this time around. I'm assuming it wasn't still the mouse, as she had done 6 rotations since that down-time.
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XWB
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Post by XWB on Jun 19, 2014 20:03:39 GMT 1
Hard to tell. The A380 has several fixed maintenance intervals (instead of long maintenance downtime), G-XLEA is almost 1 year old so I would not exclude a small maintenance check.
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