Originally Posted by Mk1
If on the walk around an engine cowl was found to have not been secured
- many times in my life I have arrived to 'take' an a/c to find the cowls open as the eng team do something under the bonnet - even to see the process still on-going during the walk-round. In aviation we trust the professionals - the engineers - and rely on them to secure the cowls in this case. I do not 'get out' again and check.
SC - according to an earlier post the a/c night-stopped LHR so that theory can probably go to bed.