Nooorm

from the St Louis Post-Dispatch:
American Connection operator cancels flights at Lambert

The Trans States 'Ramp Control' guy in STL said that it was much like American Airlines problem. He said TSA's airplanes are grounded until they get inspections done.

The Post-Dispatch says it's only half their fleet and it sounds like it shouldn't take long.

here we go again!

ToiletDuck

I wonder if they have a "spare" MX vehicle stored they can use to help meet the demand. If so I need to grab my camera and get a picture of it. The current 4 different color model with speed tape holding the windows on is killer.

TBucket

Apparently it IS only part of the fleet, as some flights were going out of ORD tonight. (The rest were being frantically repo-ed to STL)

reevesofskyking

I just got home from that all of that.
Now 3 in the morning.

24 airplanes on both united and american flying.
8 hours per airplane to bring back into complince.

Reeves

Airtran717

It affected the electronic controls for steering the nosewheel and Bill Mishk said that the nosewheel was not needed for safety of flight. Well, I had several nosewheel hard overs in the old EMB-145. I guess that is why there was a memory item for "Nosewheel Hardover". Oh yeah, they usually occurred on landing, which is a phase of flight..

Interesting.......

DYNASTY HVY

No its just needed for safety on the ground!

Airtran717

Got it!

Thanks for clarifying that!

cessna157

Isn't that like saying death is a part of life.

Pilotpip

Hulie got smacked with a pretty big fine about a year ago for GJ failing to comply with an AD and swapping a few engines without any documentation.

But that's a different company...

POPA

Trans States' favorite trick in the past was to wait for a DMI to expire and swap the offending part into another plane so they could DMI it all over again.