Rainboe, I don't get it. First you say the engineers are going to assess it and figure out what is needed to repair it. Then you say the engineers are bad judges to be doing this sort of thing.
So who is going to decide if it can be repaired, the pilots? You bend it, you fix sort of deal?
You might want to note that unlike pilots and car mechanics, engineers meet the standard definitions of a profession.
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(And yes I am both a pilot and an engineer, sadly not a car mechanic)