Cool Video Of Emirates A380 Maintenance Check

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: November 21, 2014

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Last week Emirates uploaded a pretty snazzy video to their YouTube channel of an A380 3-C maintenance check, which took about two months to complete.

I think a lot of people don’t realize just how extensive maintenance checks on airplanes are. They’re not just “checking” to see if anything is wrong, but rather basically taking apart most of the plane and then putting it back together. That’s why you shouldn’t feel unsafe when you’re flying an older plane — it still undergoes the same maintenance checks of newer planes, as it’s basically taken apart and put back together every few years.

So it’s pretty cool that Emirates created a sub-two minute video giving an overview of the process:

Pretty impressive, eh?

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BILL JEFFREYS Guest

November 22, 2014, 10:35 pm

I would like to know how many take off landings and hours it had flowing for the c check? CHEERS BJ

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PennAdam Guest

November 22, 2014, 8:34 pm

Is this done in UAE or France or elsewhere? Most employees appear to be of Indian Subcontinent origin.

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SS Guest

November 22, 2014, 11:26 am

If I am not wrong the first A380 Emirates flew was in 2008. So in 6 years they have gone for a 3C check. Pretty impressive. Is it mandatory? I have flown quite a few planes which belong to the 1990's like the A320, recently I flew in one of them which was completely run down. I am wondering this 3C check is done by only profit making big airlines of the Middle East who are customer conscious or by third world air lines as well ? What's the rule here?!

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Adam Guest

November 22, 2014, 2:05 am

yeah why no overhaul or even cleaning/refreshing of the F cabin?? atleast nothing that was shown as part of this clip. I suppose its possible they view the front of the plane as a 'low traffic' area so might not be overhauled as frequently as the other cabins and might be on schedule for the next check level etc.

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Tex Guest

November 21, 2014, 11:04 pm

i wonder how many air hours those engines have and how. Many landings before the overhaul.

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