Originally Posted by
Bend alot
The numbers really do not add up for aircraft to to have not been delivered - that is a massive amount of stock to be holding, but it might be true.
I also think in the last hearing it was said that aircraft were delivered.
Thorson estimated that if the methodology was corrected, the ignition risk “would be classified as potentially unsafe”
40 wing sets is less than three months production. Given wings and aircraft in assembly, units in inventory and transit (the wings are built in Japan), and completed aircraft going through pre-delivery processing, 40 is far from "massive". Further, delivery pre-cert would be a
major escape - the sort of thing that gets production shutdown and it wouldn't be a rumor.
"Thorson estimated" - so a non-lightning specialist, with only a passing knowledge of the methodology in question, estimated. Hardly a convincing argument that the aircraft are unsafe.