ASA Aircraft Inspection, Repair & Alterations

[Music] what does it take to cut a ship into two halves to strip down and reassemble a giant plane to overhaul the world's longest high-speed train it takes hundreds of professionals expertise precision and courage it's never been done before pushing everyone to the limit it is surely a challenging job now on mega pit stops [Music] every six years at the very least every plane has to clear its schedule for an important job it's a major inspection known as an il check how much work does this involve 25,000 man-hours it's one of the most complicated pit stops in the world Lufthansa Technik Malta is an expert in aircraft maintenance day one of a huge new project the Airbus a330 300 official named kilo Romeo it's over 63 meters long and almost 17 metres tall kela Romeo is used for medium to long haul routes the Airbus's wingspan a good 60 metres and it travels at a maximum speed of 875 kilo