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I was in Sydney Line Maintenance some 20 years ago. The Civil Aviation Authourity had a decree that an aircraft could not leave Main Base with any open items [ Hold Items. ADD, MEL, call it what you will ] in the log book. Any infraction would mean they would take some type of action. An aircraft could transit through Main Base without trouble, but no open items allowed departing Main base on higher checks.
So what has happened, has the CASA relaxed this rule and why ?. If it was in force a couple of years ago when the engineers took PIA, then the fleet would have been grounded.
I once saw an American B747 freighter that had some 97 deferred items in the log book, when it departed Sydney the count was some 103. One of them had been there for over a year. !!!