Thank you, just what the Dr Ordered!
I have been waiting weeks for that to go public - two months in fact! It seems that after a fair competition Manchester has decided to acquire a new Explorer [but that is all I know].
Whilst I think its a fair point for those posting to raise the past poor AOG record of the MD nowadays its more about checking the product is on-line for the claimed 'AOG recovery' - keep an eye on the ball is not necessarily being cruel to the product!
The evidence I have now [and we all know I have been a severe critic of MD902 AOG in the past] is that MD are far better. You will always find a glitch like all he Mets ancient AS355s being grounded because they all shed gearboxes within days - situations like that just cannot be overcome without pain. I guess EC were wrong footed by not building 151 skid sets to go with the 150 120s they were building.
S*** happens, its deciding whether its a one off or a malaise that has led to all the vitriol on Pprune and elsewhere. For a long time it was a malaise for MD. But it was denied - even though it was patently true.
So, faced with all the lies, at what point were people to decide what became the truth? In many ways that aspect has been little more than self inflicted and - I now believe - recent history.
Long may it last.