dailymail.co.uk— The Australian airline said it temporarily grounded one of its A380 superjumbos after discovering 36 tiny cracks in its wings during a maintenance inspection.
Feb 8, 2012View in Crawl 4
All I can find on this is that it's "non-critical wing brackets" that have hairline cracks. If they are "non-critical" then why are they installed in the wing? Seems like everything in the wing of a plane has a purpose. Otherwise it's just unwanted extra weight.
NewsMeBackFeb 8, 2012
Always better safe than sorry.
Closed AccountFeb 8, 2012
if it ain't boeing, i'm not going.
airbus released these things too damn fast so they wont lose money.
avleFeb 9, 2012
Boing is reported to have much more severe problems with their new plastic aircraft.
DiggPiggletFeb 9, 2012
All I can find on this is that it's "non-critical wing brackets" that have hairline cracks. If they are "non-critical" then why are they installed in the wing? Seems like everything in the wing of a plane has a purpose. Otherwise it's just unwanted extra weight.
viquarFeb 8, 2012
I always knew it. Airbus pushed out a lot of aircrafts in haste, in order not to lose orders.