With all due respect Hot Dog, If you spent the last nine years of your flying career in flight ops how the hell do you know what goes on behind closed panels and under insulation blankets and in the darkest corners of the structure of a 747.
Have you spent much time in a heavy maintenance environment in the last 20 years?
If so where?
We in sydney see the aircraft come back to the hangars with defects galore after foriegn mro's have their go.