Southwest grounds 128 73Gs due to failure to perform maintenance inspections

[700UW]

757? Wasnt it an Aloha 737-200?

 

[WorldTraveler]

AA had a skin separation issue on a 757.

Yes, Aloha was a 737-200.

and specific to WN, the question after multiple issues just like this is how they have failed to present a workable system to the FAA to make sure it doesn't keep happening.

self-disclosure is fine.

self-mgmt. of the maintenance process is the intended goal.

 

[topDawg]

Well, part of the self-disclosure criteria includes a determination by the FAA that it wasn't just a "we didn't want to do them" thing.

If FAA determines that this was just laziness, they'll be fined accordingly regardless of the self disclosure.

They didn't do 120+ checks on aircraft 
What other reason is it than they didn't want to do them? 
 
Either they didn't want to do them or WN has some complete and total idiots running their planning dept.  
 

I don't think any airline is too lazy to do required checks. The 'sun roof option' was deemed as Boeing's fault, not southwest's. They (boeing) changed the inspection threshold to 30,000 cycles instead of the original 60,000. It could have happened to any airline operating the 737 with high cycles. Remember the 757 that popped it's top? Once again, boeing's fault, not AA's

WN vendor was making wrong repairs. (thats why the FAA fined WN) 
 
So yes it was a Boeing issue that turned into ATS not fixing the issue correctly and, as a fairly normal thing in outsourcing, the airline wasn't doing QA like it should have been. 

 

[swamt]

The inspections were all completed by the end of the weekend with one remaining that is in full heavy maint.  This was really no big deal as SOME wanted it to get to. Only one plane required further maint upon inspection findings. A very good outcome after inspecting 128 plus aircraft for the missed inspection.  From what we are being told there will be no fines or penalties applied to SWA, the 5 day extension from the FAA was more than enough to correct the missed inspections.