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Flight Safety
Since these were both brand new aircraft (200 hours for one, and ferry delivery for the other), I thought of another possibility.
Many years ago now, I knew of a concept in electronics known as "infant mortality". The idea was that brand new electronics experience a higher failure rate than equipment that is still new, but has been in service for several weeks or months.
I was of the belief that most manufacturers will burn in equipment, which will take it past this phase. Also the life cycle is sometimes described as being like a U curve, with very high failure rates at the beginning of the lifecycle and also very high hfailure rates at the end of the lifecycle.