Distant Voice
Hi again,
Magnersdrinker, haven't heard from you for a while. You say
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many that read this will assume the system was unsafe before the crash
They are right, that's why we had a crash. What many would like to know now is how safe is it at present. Whilst MoD refuse to release documents such as the 2007 QinetiQ report, that Des Browne and the Stn Cmdr boast about, and the combustion analysis report, there has to be doubts. As Mick Smith points out it is doubtful that QinetiQ gave the general fuel system a clean bill of health in Sept 2007 after their critical report of 2007. I suspect that the study report covers a selected section of the fuel system in the bomb bay, and contains several conditional statements.
DV
Well if its any consolation these documents/reports are not shared with the engineers who fix these things. We just get appropriate checks , RTIs etc. I have to admit the amount of checks and things as of late are mounting up and its hitting us at the most and thats man power wise. I wont go into detail as Im not in position to say that but what is frustrating , its easy to introduce these many checks but this added with normal day to day maint as well as a jet that aint young anymore it would be great for a few more techies with afew years experience.