Wing fracture discovered on China Airlines plane
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Posted on: September 25th, 2007 by Charlotte Fellows
Airport workers at Saga Airport on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu made a disturbing discovery during a routine check on a China Airlines-owned Boeing 737-800. A fracture measuring 28 inches in length was found in the fuselage, weeks after a similar aircraft owned by the same airline exploded into a ball of flames at another Japanese airport in Okinawa.
The crack was found at the rear end of the plane near the tail during post-flight inspections by China Airlines workers, with the plane scheduled to take off again half an hour later for Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan where the ill-fated fireball plane took off from a few short weeks ago.
Another plane was sent to pick up the passengers, who eventually arrived at their destination five hours behind schedule. Rui Mitsuma, official for the Japanese Transport Ministry said an investigation would be launched to determine how the crack in the fuselage formed.
www.china-airlines.com
Gazza
This is what is meant by more stringent testing and maintenence procedures.
How many lives could have been at risk and should there have been a tragedy, who would be to blame?
Igor
These airport workers that discovered the fracture should be given the Nobel Price. They saved hundreds of lives! I’m not surprised this was an airplane belonging to a Chinese airline. Again a good example for China’s reputation of not taking safety matters to seriously. Whether it be the country’s mines, spacious constructions or factories, accidents do happen all time and probably many even not reach the media.