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Old 25th May 2006 | 11:16
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MOR
 
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Not really, he didn't name the company.

I did some work on several BAE 146s that had been used in Columbia. The wings were rotten and needed wing spars, skin and all the pipework replaced.
Flybe was looking at some aircraft from that part of the world that ended up at Woodford having their wings fixed. The word around the hangar there was that those particular aircraft had never had the BioBor treatment, hence the condition of the wings. Apparently the tropical fungi are more virulent than those in colder climates...
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