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Old 19th September 2008 | 08:50
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tbaylx
 
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Sorry to disagree,
As a person that did have a responsibility to a very major operating company that was purchasing a severe number of new aircraft the acceptance of the aircraft from the manufacture was dependent on our detailed inspection and monitoring of the aircraft during manufacturing and acceptance by us, this included the performance flight testing. The aircraft was not accepted until all the boxes had a tick. Slack acceptance protocol will result in embarrassing events later.
I would be very suprised if anywhere on EK's acceptance checklist there was a box that they had to check stating, entire aircraft inspected for FOD in all compartements, fuel tanks, and inspection panels. That is a Airbus manufacturing QC job, nothing to do with EK. It would take the team weeks to inspect an aircraft the size of a 380.
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