have found to work maintenance mechanic on Tuesday to a structural part of the upper fuselage of the fighter jets F/A-18C is a crack. The air force ordered the Review of all the F/A-18, the double seater of the type F/A-18D.
the operational readiness of The F/A-18 fleet is not restricted by the Federal office for defence (Armasuisse) announced on Friday. The Review of the fleet started on Wednesday.
Already checked the information, according to a further seven aircraft. No cracks were found in the affected body part. The studies should on the 3. March to be completed.
The state-owned defence and technology company Ruag is parallel to this Review, together with the Contacts for the F/A-18 fleet in the United States of the possible cause. This contact person of the manufacturer Boeing and the US Navy.
The plan of the fleet in accordance with the Armasuisse no direct impact on the availability of the F/A-18. In particular, the air police service was not affected.
How long stay on the damaged machine, on ground, on Friday was unclear. Also how the repair is going on and what are the costs consequences, was in clarification. Only then reliable information was possible, it was said.
Already at the beginning of February 2018, the air force, five F/A-18 due to cracks on the wing flaps into March grounden. Also at that time the whole fleet was subjected to a Review. The Swiss army has about 30 F/A-18. Five of them doubles.
(sda)
Created: 22.02.2019, 15:40 Uhr
