Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I'll take "weird failures related to the radar altimeter" for $50.
back at coex we had to look through the past few pages of the logbook to check for history and in doing so there was write up after write up concerning the lavatory being inop. It was finally fixed when the right engine was replaced. It was something like LAV INOP, remarks ENG 2 REPLACED. They were really good with maintenance there btw and it actually fixed it. Go throttle-by-wire.
The best I ever saw there was when we had a plane break on push back in PHL. We started looking back through the book, tons of complaints about electrical gremlins and bizzare EICAS messages and then a "we saw a bird through the glare shield." MX reported, no bird. More odd EICAS write ups and NO DISP messages followed by "saw a bird" "mx: no bird" "We can see the bird moving around" "mx: glareshield removed no bird found" it was so hilarious. That bird could be long gone and that plane is going to be screwed for a long time.