Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a...
by dieselgate on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:49PM
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Agree with this, the plane is relatively young as well only like 17 years old IIRC
Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a...
by ostbender on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:45PM
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You forget that Russia is under heavy sanctions (which likely lead to the accident in the first place), and they have a difficult time maintaining their normal planes, let alone those that crash land or take off from fields
Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a...
by imp0cat on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:15AM
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Oh, so is this one of the stolen planes? And so they are unable to get spare parts?
Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a...
by kergonath on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:48AM
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Officially, no. In reality there are ways around it. There are always local or Chinese knockoffs, and other aircrafts that can be used as sources of spare parts. This one might well end up like this if too many things go wrong. It’s obviously suboptimal and a bit of a gamble.
Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a...
by rob74 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:29AM
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According to https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/airbus-a320-200-ra-73..., the plane was leased from AerCap and registered as VQ-BFW (Bermuda) until 23 Mar 2022, and then re-registered as RA-73807 - so yes, this is one of the stolen planes. But the spare parts situation is not related to that...
I have found an article https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/aircraft-... about AerCap receiving 645 million dollars for 17 (or 18?) aircraft used by Aeroflot, but Ural Airlines being independent of Aeroflot, I don't think this plane is part of that agreement.
Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a...
by bentcorner on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:01PM
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> If an airliner literally encountered phantom electrical issues it would be grounded immediately, and they’d be fixed
Not necessarily - I'm no aviator but from my understanding even if there are non-functioning systems the airplane can still fly: https://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/features/inoperative-...
Here's an example of where that went wrong: https://youtu.be/iMMQ6-OfnL0?t=729
Although I do agree that the aviation industry takes safety very seriously.
Airplanes and cars are regulated as differently as cars and watermelons. If an airliner literally encountered phantom electrical issues it would be grounded immediately, and they’d be fixed — that’s the point of all the civilian infrastructure, like the FAA, that we’ve built up around air travel. I know, it’s not perfect, there are mistakes and sometimes corruption, but for the most part it works. Many parts of every airplane in the sky have been replaced multiple times. It’s the only way they work.