Drop the Pilot

[Mulboyne]

Following story merely a thin excuse for posting the picture
Kyodo via Japan Today: JAL president concerned about adverse effects of safety blunders
Japan Airlines Corp President Toshiyuki Shimmachi on Monday expressed concern that a recent series of safety blunders has started to adversely affect the number of passengers traveling on JAL. He said he acknowledges that there are worries about the airline's safety and that some customers have shifted to All Nippon Airways...more...

[Tsuru]

Not much choice out of AMS I'm afraid... but I suppose I could always try KLM

Nothing wrong with JAL as far as I can tell... the food and IFE are great, the F/As are all pretty much hot, they're always bang on time, they're pretty cheap out of Europe and on every JAL flight I've been on I didn't notice any bits falling off... great airline!

[Mulboyne]

Japan Times: JAL plane loses nose wheel tires in Haneda landing
A Japan Airlines passenger jet lost the tires off its two nose wheels Wednesday morning as the aircraft skidded to a landing at Tokyo's Haneda airport, airline and airport officials said. Airport authorities closed the runway -- one of three at Haneda -- where the Boeing 767 landed at around 10 a.m. with 222 passengers and crew on board from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido.

[Tsuru]

Both of them?

That means either someone in the maintenance department fucked up of the nose gear steering wasn't centered on landing... it does happen

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/021016/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/588609/L/

Embarrasing nontheless... good no-one was injured.

[Greji]

The guy on NHK said last night that it was "hijo ni mezurashii" for an airliner to loose both front tires at one time. What a great understatement. Can you imagine the passengers landing on that baby looking out the windows as the tires blow by and saying "Ah! Mezurashii na".

gb

[Taro Toporific]

Nothing wrong with JAL as far as I can tell...

JAL sucks in economy class---the smallest seats in the industry.

[Tsuru]

Nothing wrong with JAL as far as I can tell...

JAL sucks in economy class---the smallest seats in the industry.

Who said anything about cattle class?

[Tsuru]

In other news:

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=340547

NARITA — A Japan Airlines plane's rubber component to connect the engine with the wing was found to be missing after the plane arrived at Narita airport from Incheon, South Korea, on Thursday morning, the airport operator said.

Narita International Airport Corp closed the 2,180-meter runway for eight minutes to search for the 11-by-2 centimeter component but could not find it. The incident caused no apparent damage or injury to passengers or crew of the Boeing 767-300, and the plane left Narita around 12:30 p.m. for Busan, South Korea. (Kyodo News)

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Japan Today: Tires came off JAL plane due to drop in pressure in one tire
Two front tires on a Japan Airlines passenger plane came off as it landed Wednesday at Haneda airport in Tokyo probably due to a drop in internal pressure in the right tire, sources close to a Japanese government accident investigation commission said Thursday. The transport ministry's Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission believes the loss in nitrogen gas pressure caused the right tire to pop off from the wheel as a result of impact on landing and the left tire may then have burst from the weight of the plane, the sources said.

[Greji]

[quote="""]In other news:

plane's rubber component to connect the engine with the wing was found to be missing


What is holding the wing on if rubber bands are holding the engines on?

[Blah Pete]

What is holding the wing on if rubber bands are holding the engines on?

Model glue of course. Didn't you ever build planes when you were a kid?

[Greji]

Of course! Geez, why couldn't I have figured that out!

[Tsuru]

In other news:

plane's rubber component to connect the engine with the wing was found to be missing


What is holding the wing on if rubber bands are holding the engines on?

It's probably just a rubber seal

[Greji]

It's probably just a rubber seal [/quote]

Yup, a recycled life sized rubber model of "Tamachan"

[Tsuru]

Rubber seals

[Mulboyne]

AP via Yahoo: Japan Airlines Exhibits Wreckage of 1985 Accident to Raise Safety Awareness Among Workers

Plagued by a series of safety lapses, Japan Airlines is putting together an exhibition of wreckage from a 1985 plane crash in what top executives said was a big push to raise awareness about safety among its employees. The torn fuselage and gnarled collapsed seats from the Aug. 12, 1985, crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet that killed 520 people are part of the display at the Safety Development Center, opening April 24...Until now, JAL had refused to show the wreckage, citing the feelings of survivors and families of the victims...

...The exhibit, which may seem like an odd, perhaps even exploitative, way to send a message about flight safety, will be shown to people outside the company upon request. The crash -- the deadliest involving a single plane in aviation history -- happened when JAL Flight 123 smashed into a mountainside northwest of Tokyo after losing its vertical tail section on a flight from Tokyo to Osaka. A government investigation blamed improper repairs by Boeing Co. Four people survived. The exhibit includes the flight data recorder in a glass case, sprawling segments of damaged aircraft, copies of Japanese newspapers and The New York Times with the news on their front pages, and color photographs of metal parts hanging eerily from trees. Japan Airlines officials acknowledged some family members had mixed feelings about the exhibition...more...

[Captain Japan]

Pilot bugged attendant's home to see if she cared
Asahi

Police arrested a Japan Airlines pilot for allegedly bugging the apartment of a flight attendant to find out what she thought of him, sources said.

Masahiro Nomura, 39, of Tokyo's Toshima Ward, said he wiretapped the 34-year-old woman's apartment in Setagaya Ward in June 2002 and on occasion parked outside her home for the next four years.

"I parked my car near her apartment five or six times so I could listen," police quoted Nomura as saying.

Police said Nomura placed two listening devices that he had purchased in Akihabara inside her apartment. One was installed inside an electrical outlet.

Nomura's prying came to an end when the woman complained to police last October that he was stalking her. Police discovered the listening devices the following month.

Nomura is married and the flight attendant is single, the sources said.

Commenting on the case, a JAL official said: "It is extremely regrettable and we sincerely apologize for the incident.

"We will take disciplinary action against the individual based on our rules. Also, we will improve our employees' compliance."

Nomura's actions constitute violations of the Radio Law.