The European Union Aviation Safety Authority discovered this issue when it noticed a surge in incorrect airspeed and altitude readings for planes that were doing their first flight after an extended period in storage.Īccording to figures from aviation analytics company Cirium, obtained by Traveller, more than 16,000 aircraft were taken out of service by April 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Massive crews and aircraft certifiers are returning to places like the Mojave Desert in California and the Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage facility at Alice Springs to get these aircraft going again.īut the travel restart isn’t without its hurdles.Ĭrews have faced snakes on planes, poisonous scorpions, birds nesting in engine covers and insects burrowing in exposed holes.Īirlines have especially struggled with insects making nests in pitot tubes, a tiny tube that helps planes measure airspeed and altitude. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, and the way it brought international travel to a standstill back in March 2020, airlines have had some of their quietest years in history.īut now travel - both international and domestic - is picking up again and people are desperate to fly.Īirlines are now in the thick of the mammoth task of bringing thousands of planes out of what’s called “deep storage” with engineers, mechanics, pilots, cleaners and everyone who is responsible for getting aircraft back in the sky again working overtime.
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