Covid-19: Safety concerns over planes returning to service
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Experts are warning airlines to take extra care when reactivating planes left in storage during the pandemic.
Pilot rustiness, maintenance errors and even insect nests could be potential dangers for aircraft re-entering service.
Travel restrictions have caused a huge decline in flying, with many planes put in extended storage.
As a result, there has been a spike in the number of reported problems as planes return to service.
“Every aircraft is going to have a specific set of instructions for maintenance, but it has never been done on this scale before,” said Greg Waldron, Asia managing editor of aviation magazine FlightGlobal.
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if at all? not sure how much they can do. it has been again so long since the crash. and i imagine modeling ocean currents could be extremely difficult. we have seen certain graphics publications to show this is not inconsistent with the crash off the coast of western australia. so while this does dismiss some of the more bizarre conspiracy theories i don t think it gets us that much closer to actually locating the keys to the investigation which are the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder which are absolutely essential for the understanding of the disaster. all right. well piece of debris that is being analyzed as we speak. greg waldron, asian managing editor for flight global. thank you for joining us today from sing pour.apore. a look at how this piece of debris could cross the indian ocean. our meteorologist joins us with
watching this so closely hoping to get some answers. david will be connecting with us throughout the day from hong kong. david, thank you. at this moment we want to turn to greg waldron, asian manage editor for flight global joins us live from singapore to talk about what a very encouraging development, i want to find out from you, based on scarce info we have now. how confident are you that this is in fact mh-370? well it seems consistent with the flaperon of a 777, aircraft. the size is right. this would probably be a part of the aircraft that would float assuming it got loose from the plane when it hit water. it is interesting to find this. there is still so many unanswered questions about the disaster. i ve don t think it helps us very much in terms of resolving this mystery. just looking at the flaperon by itself, seeing it alone doesn t necessarily give us any
passengers 17 were children and that includes one baby. the ceo of airasia tweeted this short statement thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. we must stay strong. we haven t heard from them in a while. if we get any updates from the airline company itself we ll certainly bring that to you immediately. airasia again released the nationalities of the people on board. i just gave that to you. three from south korea. one from singapore. one from malaysia. and one from france. so we continue on here. joining me by phone is greg waldron. greg is the asia managing editor of flight global. with what we know greg about this plane and its query to divert to another height flying it wanted to go to 38,000 feet. there was a thunderstorm at 52,000 feet. what else are you learning about what was going on in the air in
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