You don’t need to see records to say “hey that doesn’t look right” when you see a fuel tank design that goes right to the fuselage skin around the bottom of the airplane......
Like I said in an earlier post if the original conformal tank design goes in unchanged then Airbus can tell Boeing to piss off. But if there are significant changes before it is approved, a situation I think is highly likely, then Airbus’s attempt to smoke this pass the regulator was properly called out.
This in no way absolves Boeing of their culpability in the MAX fiasco, it instead shows how deep the
rot is in aircraft certification goes for both the FAA and EASA