Hi,

1. There was an incident on an SQ aircraft where a rat was sighted by the passengers or cabin crew. Unable to catch it, the crew noted in the CDL. Thus a RAT (Rapid Access Team) if I remembered correctly was brought in to catch it with their mouse traps etc. Tried as they might, they still could not locate the rat and the engineer in charge had to annotate in the CDDL… just like a normal defect which cannot be rectified in our DDL.

2. A senior told me that a precaution when changing wheels during refueling and passengers loading is that the inner core of the axle jack should always be lowered to the minimum before jacking. This is because by not doing so, when you have changed the wheel and de-jacked, you might not be able to pull out the axle jack due to the heavy load compression of the shock strut. This incident actually happened before.

3. What happens if you are about to depart the aircraft but found that some documents in the cert file is missing? The carbon copies are actually kept in the Tech Records in Airline House and thus in case of emergency you can go the QSD website and print it out but it has to be signed by the AFM/DE. You must also annotate in the tech log and DDL. Upon reaching S’pore and with adequate time, replace it with the carbon copy from Tech Records.

Regards,
Fahmi