Engineering officer decided to go with the boys out to Dulles Washington to do an engine change on a VC10, we kept getting excuses, problem with this, problem with that, then a private call ( he paid) to the line at Brize from the US, could you please put the engine lifting kit on the next Dulles flight, while we continue to stall.
He had managed to arrange everything needed to do the engine change, but forgot the lifting kit. Hence his phantom problems being sent in on the daily state.