Maintenance company attacks union
A report in The Australian says that the SIA Engineering Company has rejected claims by the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association that faulty maintenance on two Qantas 747s was conducted by the Singapore-based engineering company.
In a statement issued yesterday, SIAEC said that it “categorically refutes and rejects the unfounded allegations about work at our facilities”.
It added that “the allegations that the ALAEA has made to date concerning our processes and practices are baseless and blatantly disregard the findings of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) of Australia, which has audited SIAEC on several recent occasions”.
In those audits CASA stated that “SIAEC is carrying out its maintenance activities in accordance with current procedures and CASA regulations”.
SIAEC said it was surprised that ALAEA had failed to tell the public and the media that the alleged maintenance discrepancies were discovered some 10 months after the aircraft had left SIAEC’s facilities, and were in an area of the aircraft in which their personnel had not worked.
The two Qantas aircraft had undergone numerous checks and inspections since their overall work in Singapore and there were no concerns with the airworthiness, SIAEC said.
“They (ALAEA) are shamefully using an industrial campaign against Qantas to illegitimately cause safety concerns to the travelling public,” SIAEC said
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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