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As usual you are talking out of your a**e. If you don't know the facts could you please refrain from posting as you are embarrassing yourself sunshine.
Just as a matter of clarification, the flight crew wasn’t informed of a possible tail strike until passing FL180. The brief scraping noise was only heard by one junior flight attendant who had only been in the company for six months and a frequent flyer passenger who when questioned by the captain said he did hear a scraping noise but wasn’t concerned as the airbus always seems to make strange noises up the back. The captain then contacted the tower and they said they saw no tail strike occur and neither did an airport patrol office who was near the runway at the time chasing birds away. An inspection was conducted of the runway and no evidence was found of any tail strike. The captain then contacted the company via satcom who in turn phoned the tower at Auckland to confirm the information the captain was told. Armed with this information it was decided to proceed onto Hong Kong. Personally I would still have returned to Auckland as per the “recommendations" of the FCOM Bulletin 05/3 but I can imagine it was a very hard call for the captain at the time. As a matter of interest the aircraft was returned to service on the 28th after Haeco completed repairs.