Why are we taking the word of a politician, when the experts say something different?
Why is a serviceable frame being stripped when Ainsworth has no worries about the safety of the aircraft?
At a guess, (1) Because if a politician says something oten enough, then a large part of the public will come to accept that it is truth...or at least get fed up enough to not bother either way any more....
and (2) in the absence of any other activity - apart from slipping the ALARP work another few months, of course - this way they can point at something and claim they were doing all they could etc etc.
Will looking at every nut and bolt identify other potential weaknesses where systems interact with each other?