British Airways Moves to Improve Maintenance International Traveler / Update: LONDON
Posted on: Monday, 2 January 2006, 15:00 CST
British Airways, Europe's third-largest airline, says it has taken steps to improve aircraft maintenance after a British government report criticized its procedures.
"We have accepted the criticisms and carried out our own investigations and changed procedures and practices to address what was identified," a spokesman, Paul Marston, said in an interview after the report was highlighted in The Sunday Times.
BA planes have suffered from failures in midair, including a door ripping off a Boeing 777 at nearly 2 kilometers, or 6,000 feet, because of "slipshod" work by BA's maintenance crew, the London- based newspaper said, citing the report by the Air Accident Investigation Branch.
"Maintenance errors were not the result of willful negligence, or any desire to perform a less than satisfactory job, but the result of a combination of systemic issues that had increased the probability of an error being committed," the inspectors said, according to The Sunday Times.
Source: International Herald Tribune
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