It takes two to tango.
In some countries a sweetener is expected and if accurate this story suggests that two companies came a cropper when this practice became common knowledge to the wringing hands brigade. The main loser being the customer with no aircraft in service it seems.
Not so sure you can pin this on MD.... clearly something happened in 2008 involving them.... [but it escaped the attentions of Ppruners I guess], the latest, modern, one is PZL spinning out and losing the sale of some Kania's [or the like] to meet the same still open requirement.
Is this where we introduce BAe Systems and the Saudi's to the thread? And I recall Eurocopter having similar problems not too far back ..... lummy...
Did I say that?
