Hi, for any of you who follow the airliner industry in general, see story on United grounding the 757:http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/02/15/united.757s.grounded/index.html?hpt=T2

I love the 757....Sounds like they will get them going again in no time.

While calling a procedure that "takes about 60 to 90 minutes per aircraft" a "grounding" seems exaggerated, what really caught my attention was that "United's action involves its compliance with an airworthiness directive issued in 2004". I am awestruck by the rush to comply! Yikes!Cheers,- jahman.

While calling a procedure that "takes about 60 to 90 minutes per aircraft" a "grounding" seems exaggerated, what really caught my attention was that "United's action involves its compliance with an airworthiness directive issued in 2004". I am awestruck by the rush to comply! Yikes!Cheers,- jahman.

Sounds like they've been told :( My sister-in-law is a higher up with United and when we get together she usually has a few stories to tell. I enjoy watching her work from home on a Sunday afternoon, her laptop pluged into the United system over the internet. Lots of stuff going on.She is in the USA and I am in New Zealand so we see each other a couple of times a year. Next time I see her I'll ask her about this one.

Shame they don't make the 757 any more. Boeing recently announced they are going to design an aircraft to succeed the 737 to compete with the A320. I would prefer the Boeing 757....It (757) is a very powerful aircraft!Daniel

While calling a procedure that "takes about 60 to 90 minutes per aircraft" a "grounding" seems exaggerated, what really caught my attention was that "United's action involves its compliance with an airworthiness directive issued in 2004". I am awestruck by the rush to comply! Yikes!Cheers,- jahman.

They thought they had complied with the AD back in 2004. Except that they just realized that they did not perform the AD correctly back then. So each of those planes has been out of compliance since 2004 and legally unairworthy. They could potentially be fined by the FAA several thousand dollars for each flight that each of those aircraft has flown since 2004. To immediately ground the fleet and not fly them until the corrective actions are performed is supposed to show the FAA good faith in order to mitigate any fines that they may have coming their way.

They thought they had complied with the AD back in 2004. Except that they just realized that they did not perform the AD correctly back then.

That's scary, performing an AD incorrectly on 96 aircraft! (and then 7 years pass until the issue is discovered...)Cheers,- jahman.