Hugh S;
Great to hear from active aircrew. I like several other people on this thread are simply trying to ensure that aircrew and ground crew have as much information as possible so that you can make their own calls. For me, statements like "It is a good jet" and " I would not be flying it if I did not think it was safe" are not back up with evidence. The 14 people who lost their lives on 2nd Sep 2006 thought it was "a good jet" and would not have flown if they thought it was not safe. They made their call based on the evidence that was made available to them at the time. They new nothing about, unprotected pipe sections, coupling misalignment, excessive fuel transfer rates, life expired hot air pipes, a second duct failure, the casual way in which the SCP had been reactivated and the fact that the whole fleet was not airworthy.
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