Captplaystation you really don't get anything about my point
I'm not attacking BA and I'm not saying its maintenance wasn't good. I'm just saying that it's a quick shortcut to use AF violations to pretend BA didn't have any responsibility in addressing and mitigating the concorde's risks.
BA was certainly a much better operator for concorde, but this has nothing to do with the fact that French & British operators, civil aviation authorities, crews, engineers and investigation boards failed to mitigate the risks.
I chose to make comparison with BA to demonstrate the risks were most probably also inherent to the aircraft. In no way my point was to "attack".
By the way, while you keep on blaming the maintenance for the missing spacer, I still didn't get explanations for the 10 lost wheel nuts which perforated a BA's concorde fuel tank....wasn't it a maintenance issue
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