<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Gaza:
Care to shed more light on this?</font>
I mentioned this here a couple of weeks back. During the walkround of an A321 at EDI the FO noticed one of the engines was stiff. Turned out the bearings were almost completely dry (ie likely to prompt an in-flight shutdown) and the a/c was grounded for some time until engineers could look at it.
I think I read on PPRuNE (sorry, too lazy to search) that a few of the buses may be going back to EMA or TLS for checks after a spate of oil leak problems on the CFM engines.
Hailstone-damaged G-MIDJ is still grounded I believe, and the A320 that got hit by a de-icing rig at BHD in January only re-entered service the other month.
G-MIDE went tech on me the other day at EDI, and I was just admiring the brand new Star Alliance livery on G-MIDL from the Diamond Club window...until that one went tech on me too
[This message has been edited by ajamieson (edited 06-17-2003).]