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zsmith3rd(at)earthlink.ne
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:50 am    Post subject: Need Clarification !!! Reply with quote
do not archive.....which has been missing of late.....but I digress....

Listers,
Beautiful spring day in North Texas, 56 degrees F, bright sun, clear sky, birds singing, various wildlife doing their thing, etc.
Appropriate greetings for whatever time zone you inhabit!

My question today involves the "wheelwell wiring on the MD-80" as suffered by American and others:
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From the very short video clips on network news, showing a mechanic with a ruler checking spacing of Tyraps & clamps......weren't these aircraft originally delivered by the manufacturer as shown?
Surely mechanics didn't remove clamps and ties on all these aircraft and re-install new clamps and ties with different, incorrect, spacing just to have something to do.

As little as I know about the subject , and that's damn little, it looks like there was a failing in the inspection process back when the N-number was affixed in the beginning.
Can some knowledgeable person address this? What little video I've seen places the wire bundles up on bulkheads where it never moves anyway.

Okay, so feel free to jump in and correct my misguided view.

Regards to all,

Zed/701/R912/90+%/etc/etc

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:50 am    Post subject: Need Clarification !!! Reply with quote
do not archive.....which has been missing of late.....but I digress....

Listers,
Beautiful spring day in North Texas, 56 degrees F, bright sun, clear sky, birds singing, various wildlife doing their thing, etc.
Appropriate greetings for whatever time zone you inhabit!

My question today involves the "wheelwell wiring on the MD-80" as suffered by American and others:
Quote:
From the very short video clips on network news, showing a mechanic with a ruler checking spacing of Tyraps & clamps......weren't these aircraft originally delivered by the manufacturer as shown?
Surely mechanics didn't remove clamps and ties on all these aircraft and re-install new clamps and ties with different, incorrect, spacing just to have something to do.

As little as I know about the subject , and that's damn little, it looks like there was a failing in the inspection process back when the N-number was affixed in the beginning.
Can some knowledgeable person address this? What little video I've seen places the wire bundles up on bulkheads where it never moves anyway.

Okay, so feel free to jump in and correct my misguided view.

Regards to all,

Zed/701/R912/90+%/etc/etc

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:36 am    Post subject: Re: Need Clarification !!! Reply with quote
I'm not 100% sure but I believe there was an AD or the equivalent that all wiring be checked and that any wire that was not bundled to a certain spec must be bundled to that specification. You might notice that they are measuring the distance between the tie wraps in the video that keeps getting shown on TV. It is probably something along the lines of a tie wrap every 2 inches and some are bundled every 2.5 inches.

In the past had this happened the FAA would have given the airline 10 or 15 days to get the inspections and needed repairs done but because of political pressure due to the resent South West maintenance problem they grounded the fleet.
zsmith3rd(at)earthlink.ne wrote:
do not archive.....which has been missing of late.....but I digress....

Listers,
Beautiful spring day in North Texas, 56 degrees F, bright sun, clear sky, birds singing, various wildlife doing their thing, etc.
Appropriate greetings for whatever time zone you inhabit!

My question today involves the "wheelwell wiring on the MD-80" as suffered by American and others:
Quote:
From the very short video clips on network news, showing a mechanic with a ruler checking spacing of Tyraps & clamps......weren't these aircraft originally delivered by the manufacturer as shown?
Surely mechanics didn't remove clamps and ties on all these aircraft and re-install new clamps and ties with different, incorrect, spacing just to have something to do.

As little as I know about the subject , and that's damn little, it looks like there was a failing in the inspection process back when the N-number was affixed in the beginning.
Can some knowledgeable person address this? What little video I've seen places the wire bundles up on bulkheads where it never moves anyway.

Okay, so feel free to jump in and correct my misguided view.

Regards to all,

Zed/701/R912/90+%/etc/etc


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:05 am    Post subject: Need Clarification !!! Reply with quote
At 09:36 AM 4/11/2008, you wrote:
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In the past had this happened the FAA would have given the airline
10 or 15 days to get the inspections and needed repairs done but
because of political pressure due to the resent South West
maintenance problem they grounded the fleet.

The stuff I have heard on Bloomberg TV includes a couple of germane comments:
1. The AD in question was issued some 18 months ago and the
airlines, particularly American, have been ignoring it all this time.
2. The FAA is feeling lots of pressure (which I feel they deserve)
over being too close with the airlines. This was a big issue with
the proposal for user fees pushed by the FAA and the Bush
administration in the last year or two.

According to my wife, the FAA motto is "We're not happy 'till you're
not happy."

Paul
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bobefx(at)yahoo.com
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:54 pm    Post subject: Need Clarification !!! Reply with quote
What does this have to do with the 601, 01 or the 801???????

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject: Need Clarification !!! Reply with quote
In a message dated 4/11/2008 2:55:08 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bobefx(at)yahoo.com writes:
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I'm not 100% sure but I believe


Nothing and I have double checked the facts three times.

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