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Old 24th Jul 2002, 08:30
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S76Heavy
 
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Flying Lawyer, I respectfully disagree with your views. As a pilot, I make damn sure that I plan the flight to be as safely as possible, covering as many variables that I can think of. Now it appears that there is a variable that is unknown, yet fatal..it killed in mere seconds.
I personally don't see how one can justify NOT grounding AC until they have been thoroughly inspected for possible failures.
Perhaps they have been checked already, as I mentioned I have had limited acces to hard info after a computer problem, depending on newspapers instead
but should not the CAA have grounded the type on Tuesday and make some sort of drive train check ( I suspect that's where the cause will be found as it was a swift and catastrophic failure) mandatory before commencing flight operations?

And yes, it has affected me personally, perhaps that makes me biased
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