When was tiger grounded

The airline's domestic Australian flights will be grounded until July 9, but its flights to Singapore are not affected.

Shares of competitors rose sharply as a result, with Virgin Australia jumping The airline said in a statement to the Singapore Stock Exchange that he had been charged with getting its planes back in the air.

Tiger said Mr Davis was going to focus on "assisting Tiger Airways Australia to resume operations as soon as possible. Tiger operates 10 Airbus As domestically in Australia. The Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces, grounded all its "Tiger" helicopters on Wednesday, due to technical faults found in their machinery. As a result, flight operations involving all 53 aircraft were temporarily suspended. Before new flights the machines must be "thoroughly checked and bolts replaced if necessary.

The incident is the latest in a series of embarrassments for the Bundeswehr and the German government concerning equipment, especially as regards government-issue aircraft. Bundeswehr officials have also long complained that much of their equipment is outdated and broken, as increasing defense spending becomes more and more unpopular politically.

In July of this year, two pilots were killed in a military helicopter crash near the city of Hanover. Just a week earlier, one pilot was killed when two Eurofighter military jets collided in northeastern Germany.

The Air Safety Committee will conduct an assessment on Friday and is then expected to discuss the next course of action. The bolt in question is also installed in the transport helicopter NH90 and in the training helicopter EC of the Bundeswehr. But since these bolts are not in any safety-relevant points, their flight operations can continue.

According to a report in the German magazine Der Spiegel , the defective component in the case of the "Tiger" is a connecting bolt within the rotor control. The manufacturer Eurocopter had pointed out that some of these titanium components could be made brittle by hydrogen.

They could therefore break during the flight, which according to experts could cause a crash. Frustrated soldiers and a defense system struggling to repair its way into a fully functioning military. And a new defense minister who will have to regain confidence from army representatives. Ageing helicopters have proved a big hurdle for the German military. The Bundeswehr has grounded all its 53 Tiger helicopters, after engineers said technical faults needed attention. Customers affected will receive a full refund or credit for deferred travel.

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