Originally Posted by
Capt Kremin
The aircraft was in maintenance for two full days days before the crash.
Back in the late 1990's, I worked 737-3/4/500. We had repeated issues with poor maintenance with Chinese operators - things like throttle cables breaking due to excessive wear less than 100 hours after they were supposedly inspected. When I worked at a car dealership while in college, we called that a 'wall job' - customer brings in the car, it gets parked up against a wall for a few days - customer comes back and picks up the car with a sizable repair bill when no actual work had been done (didn't happen at my dealership, but I knew of dealerships where it did).
I'd rather assumed that sort of thing was a thing of the past as the Chinese market had matured - maybe not...