Passengers just love Qantas ’s A380 superjumbos – and so do rattlesnakes and scorpions.
Qantas’s fleet of A380s is now basking in the sun in California’s Mojave desert and its rattlesnake season so Qantas engineers have added a new pre-inspection procedure to avoid the wrath of startled snakes when they carry out weekly maintenance on the parked fleet of superjumbos.
According to the airline’s Roo Tales blog the while engineers are well versed in how to protect the aircraft from birds and insects nesting in crevices in the fuselage, in Victorville California, there is a different set of potential hazards the engineers read more ⇒
Source:: AirlineRatings.Com