Aeromedic - I can appreciate your idealistic point of view mate,,,,,, but when a highley skilled LAME is paid a lousy 25 bucks an hour by Forstaff there is not much incentive to make things happen quick..
FYI just heard today rumour of another fine stuff up from geelong way... ie EBW landing in SYD with one set of leading edge flaps asymetrically deployed due torque tube coupling adrift (what happened to that independent inspection).
don't mean to be cynical but just realistic.... Australian wide body aircraft maintenance industry is in crisis.. and the people who may be able to help in the rescue no longer care or have any commitment.. they are to busy sweating over there own jobs.
so long as they get a fat paycheck every time they go to hong kong , sinagapore , or shanghai to accept the aircraft out of heavy maintenance they will not give a sh!t.