Originally Posted by
UltraFan
I'm not sure what year the deadline was, but I recently (maybe a few years back) read that Thai Airways was retiring their 747s because that deadline was approaching. Mind you, the accident happened in 1996. I never understood how the deadline for a design flaw so deadly could be allowed 20 years to be rectified. And actually I'm not sure how many airlines, if any, installed the inert gas system.