American Airlines and Delta Airlines have decided to ground almost 500 planes in order to conduct inspections on wire bundles in their fleets of MD-80's and MD-88's. The companies have done these inspections voluntarily in order to check to make sure the wire bundles are maintaining the FAA requirements.
American finished checking 243 of their aircraft yesterday and will finish inspecting the remaining aircraft today. American's grounding of their MD-80 fleet interrupted the schedules of about 26,000 passengers yesterday.
Delta Airlines has not disclosed the number of passengers effected by the grounding of the 117 MD-88's they are inspecting. Delta promises to have all aircraft inspected and back into service by Saturday.
These inspections come in the wake of a major saftey problem involving Southwest Airlines not being inspected for long periods of time. Rebounding from this, the FAA has issued audits on many maintenance logs, in order to make sure nothing is being missed after this huge saftey slip- up with Southwest.
American and Delta will be back to full operation by this weekend.
Godspeed
Thursday, March 27, 2008
MD-80's Grounded
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