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2007-09-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Goats sacrificed for troubled Nepal airliner

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Somebody should tell these guys it's the 21st century. If you are using goats as your maintenance crew and you want to prevent crashes, then throw a couple into each running engine before each take-off. Works every time. Even the gods have to change with the times.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-05 03:18|| 2007-09-05 03:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't suppose there's an entry for "goats, sacrifice of" in the Boeing maintenance manual.

Posted by Mike 2007-09-05 06:16|| 2007-09-05 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Did it work?

Posted by Boeing Tedhnical Support">Boeing Tedhnical Support 2007-09-05 09:02|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-09-05 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Just last night I was watching Dirty Jobs in which Mike Rowe (and his camera guy!) had to get all Tyvek'd up to crawl into the 104-year old boiler of a 104-year old steam powered yacht to scrape carbon and other foul deposits off the inside with a wire brush. The deposits have to get scraped off because the Coast Guard was coming for its periodic inspection, in which *they* crawl inside the boiler to have a look around.

I'm sure that Mike, the yacht's regular maintenance crew, and the Coast Guard inspectors would all prefer to stand on the dock and slaughter cute li'l goats, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that maintenance and proper inspection tend to have more consistent results.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-09-05 09:31|| 2007-09-05 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like the maintenance plan for 72 Virgin Airways.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-09-05 13:56|| 2007-09-05 13:56|| Front Page Top

#6 News reports say Airbust tried it for the A380, but the goats are about two years away from delivery and several hundred pounds overweight. No word if these goats will be suitable for carrying anybody of strictly for cargo.......

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-09-05 14:07|| 2007-09-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

#7 The goats were saved by Airbus employees who then used them for purposes of personal pleasure.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-05 14:45|| 2007-09-05 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 So for big problems do they use water buffalo?

Posted by tzsenator 2007-09-05 21:28|| 2007-09-05 21:28|| Front Page Top

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