"An Olympic Airlines plane was flying for ten days with serious technical problems that could have put passengers' safety at risk, it was revealed yesterday."
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As in photo above after inspection a steel cable was found broken, other cables (flaps, spoilers control) severely battered, also "inexplicable" rust.
A 1991 build 737-400 was dry leased for 4 years, ($200,000 monthly). Olympic used it (SX-BLD) from Aug 24 til Sep 5, then after pilots reported "heavy controls", aircraft grounded in Athens.
The aircraft (ex AirAsia) underwent some heavy maintenance at a technical center in Singapore (C-Check) just before lease.
OA management said that its own engineers, who inspected the aircraft should have detected the problem.
Engineers' spokeman says they just had just to check papers from Singapore that works have been completed, and that it was "a very dangerous combination of faults".
Local newspaper "Ethnos" revealed the story.