First 9V-SKB fault: fuel pump defect

[kras]

It seems that the latest whalejet to come into operation has suffered its first technical fault...

According to the official notice to passengers (I'm waiting at the SKL C side as I type this), a "defect in fuel tank 2" was found in SIN and "had to be rectified prior to the aircraft departure".

Subsequently, this has led to a 2-hour delay of the flight arriving into SYD, and will result in the following flight leaving SYD (SQ220) at 1130 now, instead of the originally-scheduled 0850. Arrival will be approx. 1625 SIN time.

I was not impressed to hear about this setback, given that I'm SO wanting to get some sleep at the moment... grrr

[Singapore_Air]

Oh dear so this is the second Defects to occur to the A380 fleet, at least officially.

Poor SKB.

[banx007]

As i was working near SKB on the day it was delayed and i heard from my collegue working on that aircraft that the had to change the fuel boost pump. not sure which one but that was the reason for the delay.

[UMD]

Oh dear so this is the second Defects to occur to the A380 fleet, at least officially.

Poor SKB.

What was the 1st official defect?

[MAN Flyer]

What was the 1st official defect?

I don't think pushing SKA into the grass was a smart move.

[Singapore_Air]

What was the 1st official defect?

From a technical dispatch perspective, the aircraft's only technical delay to date was on 4 January, when departure from Singapore was held up for 29min due to a spurious failure warning, says Mhun. "There was a standby static probe heating failure message, this was not a true failure but required a reset of the system to clear the warning."

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...ice-entry.html