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Old 7th Sep 2001, 02:22
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Squawk 8888
 
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That crash in Saudi- the name I saw everywhere was Worldways, the A/C was a charter for a Nigerian carrier. The cause was pinned on a maintenance contractor in the middle east who fudged the paperwork in order to let the plane go with an underinflated tire.

The investigation of that crash was an amazing bit of detective work by the TSB- they managed to recover the paperwork from the remains of an A/C that caught fire just after takeoff and crashed with a full load of fuel, then find the tire pressure readings and determine the original reading had been erased and overwritten. Hats off to them I say.
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