These defects were discovered on these A300s in New York, by us and other Engineers, back in 1999.
Nothing was done to rectify the problem, OR to call up for more than just an external visual inspection at the time, ONLY after the AA tragedy.
Now this comes out, but as he says the changes were made BEFORE this Air Transat incident in 2005, what he does NOT say is they were made AFTER the AA tradegy.
Of course, no connection.
