The note was confidential, the fix made as a result of it was not. No intellectual dishonesty, just the way things worked in the '70s I suspect.
There was no talk of grounding until 2000 because the failure mode was a new one, and more severe than anyone (including the NTSB and AAIB, who had investigated more tyre incidents than BEA) had predicted.
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