capt, im not ruffled, however people who make daft assumptions based on a brief newspaper story irratate me somewhat, how can you possible know that a number of missing fastners constitutes a unairworthy condition? these bolts are most likely from a fairing or some other non structural item which the aircraft could quite happily fly with missing completley apart from a fuel penalty ,so lets stop being silly, and for your info as well as a holding a caa aircraft maintenence engineers licence i hold a ppl which means i can actually fix em as well as fly em ,finally boeing (who we can assume are the experts) have stated there was no problem so lets leave it at that