"one of five fire suppression bottles"
was missed in previous regular inspections by United of 777 cargo bay fire systems, according to the news story we are running tomorrow.
Does this mean whoever wrote up United's inspection routines "forgot" to list one bottle in the instructions, and only listed 4 for the mx to check?
Ooops!
FTR: Denver had 2 out of 4 UA777 flights cancelled today (both to ORD), and United says it had done the work on half the fleet worldwide (26 of 52) by late afternoon. For some later flights, the planes were back on line in time, some they found replacement equipment for of another type, and some they put pax onto other lines.