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Ghana Bans A Delta Boeing 767 (Yes, Just One)
It’s not every day that you see an aviation authority ban one specific jet from operating passenger flights to a country, but that’s exactly what we’re seeing here. (onemileatatime.com) المزيد...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Is there a lemon law for old planes? Maybe this one was ready for retirement.
This 1997 vintage 767 should be recycled into a higher use , beer cans would qualify as a higher use. This bird is equipped with the troublesome P+W 4000 series engines. Obsolete and just plain worn out.
Can’t understand why Delta hasn’t retired it yet. The Ghana authorities have voted no confidence, and I agree.
Can’t understand why Delta hasn’t retired it yet. The Ghana authorities have voted no confidence, and I agree.
Nearly 25 years old and multiple delays, diversions, and cancellations to its credit in the span of about a month. Looks like a lemon to me and getting more obviously so every day. My advice to Delta is to send this plane on a one way trip to Victorville next time you take delivery of another A330. Till then, either park it or confine it to domestic duty. If an exception needs to be made, at the least it never visits Africa again. Transpacific routes are probably a bad idea as well.
Agree with Brian. I do think it is totally reasonable to ban that one aircraft from Ghana. Would you want to gamble with lives on the ground knowig the history of that jet? Keep it in the air, and it will wind up as a case history study on a future episode of "Air Disasters" on the Smithsonian Channel. Then watch all the ambulance chasers gather like sharks in a feeding frenzy.
There are at least three possible truths to what is wrong. A coin that flipps to heads 10 times in a row may still be a perfectly fair coin and it is just luck. There may be a systematic flaw in maintenance. Or, it's a lemon, like many cars manufactured on a Friday.
The laws of probability say it is most likely one or both of the latter two possibilities.