Lufthansa says an oil overfill of a newly replaced engine on one of its Airbus A380s is the likely cause of a serious cabin fume event on Nov. 29. “We believe that surplus oil got into the cabin through the bleed air system,” Chief Pilot Werner Knorr says in an internal memorandum obtained by Aviation Week. The incident happened on Flight LH592 from Frankfurt Airport to O R Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, and involved the aircraft with registration D-AIME.

SR Technics, beefing up its presence in an expanding region, has teamed up with Garuda Maintenance Facility AeroAsia (GMF) to create a component support facility in Jakarta. The five-year deal calls for the shop to serve as part of the SR Technics Integrated Component Services (ICS) network, handling about 150 part numbers.

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Monarch Aircraft Engineering has opened the doors on its new heavy maintenance facility in Birmingham, and if all goes to plan, the facility will see its fair share of non-Monarch livery. The 110,000 sq. ft. shop is Monarch's third heavy check base, joining London Luton and Manchester. Company executives say the new facility will play a key role in helping the company boost third-party revenue to 40% of its total by the middle of the decade. 

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The FAA has ordered inspections of Boeing 747-8 forward engine mount barrel nuts and bolts after cracked nuts were found on two aircraft, including a Boeing test airframe. The Dec. 2 airworthiness directive (AD), which was immediately adopted, orders operators to follow initial and repetitive inspection instructions issued by Boeing in a Sept. 27 alert service bulletin. The bulletin has yet to be made public.

Maintenance-management applications at even the largest airlines are still a mixture of old systems, newer applications and plenty of work in progress. Among the carriers that the International Air Transport Association ranks as the Top 10 in passengers transported in 2012, those in the U.S. are furthest behind, those in Europe are the most advanced and one in China is taking an in-house approach.

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