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Old Dec 8, 2008 | 1:38 pm
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While I'm very happy to hear the whalejet has been reliable (I'm on QF94 a week from today), SQ was treating theirs like a newborn child at first. They pulled it from service and gave it a full check when a pilot cut a taxiway corner short and accidentally put some of the rear wheels on the grass. Granted I should bite my tounge. Based on current record, if anyone was going to do something injurious to a 380 on the ground (other than an airbus crew leaving a toolbox in the avionics bay) it will be QF. Also, if it was Air India and PIA, rather than SQ and QF, being the first in service, I would be far more impressed with the A/C's resilience.
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