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Old 4th Nov 2019, 08:49
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Originally Posted by Rated De
That is exactly what Mr Purvinas was referring to.
No it’s not. Mr Purvinas was not calling for a grounding of airframes with over 18,000 cycles, he wanted the ENTIRE Qantas 737 fleet grounded.
"As long as Qantas is unaware which aircraft do or don't have cracks, they should ground the entire fleet until they know which are safe to fly."
So Rated De, why would that not apply to the entire Virgin fleet?
So rather than whinge, they just quietly, expeditiously and prudently did the inspections.
Again, no. Virgin inspected 20% of their fleet, Qantas have inspected 44% of their fleet but Qantas are laggards??
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