Qantas grounds 6 planes over "irregularities"
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Qantas grounded six of its Boeing 737-400 fleet yesterday after an “irregularity” was found in maintenance paperwork, news.com.au has reported. The move is likely to seriously impact Qantas’ services; the groundings leave just 15 of its total fleet of 21 Boeing 737-400s in service. The affected aircraft will be checked over by engineers, however Qantas was quick to stress that safety was not an issue.
“Qantas discovered an irregularity with paperwork for these aircraft during an internal integrity check of maintenance records,” Qantas Engineering’s Executive General Manager David Cox said in a statement. “We regularly check our records and detect a record keeping anomaly on average once a year,” he added.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) – which has been conducting a review into Qantas for the past two weeks - has been informed about the records incident. “We’ll be obviously extending the scope of that review to investigate these maintenance documents,” CASA spokesman Peter Gibson told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Three flights from Adelaide to Sydney, Canberra to Sydney and Sydney to Canberra were cancelled last night, leaving 264 passengers facing delays.
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