Globaliser, what in fact happened was that the check was due on a certain date but they had a 10% time frame on top of the original time in which to do it. The aircraft was actually scheduled to have its check done within that allowable 10% period. So in fact it was still legal. CASA never apologised for this misinformation that was fed to the public. I also believe that five of the 767's that were grounded had no maintenance issues tagged to them at all but CASA still grounded them. Of the aircraft that were inspected, CASA found the following: one had a paint chip that wasn't written up, another had two too many bundles of inflight magazines aboard and a third one had one too many BCF extinguishers on board. In fact CASA didn't even inspect all of the aircraft that were grounded because they were happy with the ones they inspected. Talking of CASA, have a read of November's Australian Aviation when it comes out. Nice people......