Qantas 787 Flight Flew With 4 Covered Static Ports

“Kick the tyres and light the fires!”

Incident & your comment reminds me of watching F-15’s, F-4’s, B-52’s in videos performing a ‘No Notice’ Alert w/Ground Crew jumping all over the place to grab & remove those tags.

It looks like they came off in route. The left inboard picture has some tape that looks ripped with blank spots where the flags may have been.

Not disagreeing with your point, just to note that as the flight was from Melbourne, in this case it would be CASA requirements rather than FAA.

additional faa requirements are just one thing to do or not to do, or to ignore, or to overlook. Authentic life and death level items are more formidible and insistent, and they have their own "must do" importance. If the union maintenance workers need an excuse to go for an inspection walk hand in hand with a pilot, by all means give it to them, giving us all reasons to feel all better.

Would've been caught if the flight crew did a proper pre-flight and walk around. Buck always stops at the PIC.

Boeing cannot fix ground crew and pilot incompetence and complacency.

To keep wasps from nesting in them.

A lot of desert dust flying around there.

Nope. While others should have caught it beforehand - the pilots are where the buck stops. PFC needs to be fully executed and complete. This is not optional.

Complacency kills.

Every pilot must conduct every PFC as if it were their very first PFC - or else they need to turn in their wings.

Complacency kills. Read this over and over until you understand.

Mentour Pilot, blancolirio, and VAS Aviation are go to channels. Dan Gryder is another, but he goes more on opinion rather than fact, and he can't stand the NTSB or the FAA.

Hard to believe.

Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder..although Stevie Wonder already has his hands full w/Swift Trucking

Fairly sophisticated plane? A Cirrus is a faily sophisticated plane.

You might think that true for a short domestic flight, but this flight went across an ocean. There is nothing on an engine that should be considered non-essential when crossing the pond. Those ports could have been something related to engine temperature, oil, or other performance indicators. If the streamer said remove before flight someone also thought they were necessary to remove.

Ironically, because it is much more visible than white tape, especially on a white fuselage.

Also, yellow, warning color, "you got to evaluate if you need to do something with me, just like the cockpit warning light or message logic.

The did not just pick out yellow for the color to use. The Boeing AMM calls for a specific tape to be used for this and the specific color of yellow. And the "removed before flight" streamers called out for in the AMM is specifically orange.

Sure. Someone isn’t happy with their salary so, what the hell? Let’s go to prison for criminal negligence.

Genius deduction.

and don't forget every safety option should be free.

Not a Boeing hater but a very suspicious person. It does jibe with the current story and it puts Southwest in a much worse light. Was Boeing right to do what they did? No. Was SWA right to demand $1m for every day of SIM training? I don’t know how it was framed. Did SWA place that contingency on Boeing or did Boeing offer it up? It still seems strange that another airline would ask for training and Boeing downplay the request. I’m not in aviation but I was surprised at Boeing’s consistent downplay of the MCAS changes.

Loving Airbus and Tupelov.

Never attribute to malice what can explained by stupidity/laziness. I’m surprised the plane sat long enough to need them though.