Mitchaa, regarding your comments on the REDL HUMS shenanigans, there was fault on the Bond side according to the report -they did not use the correct EDR forms that should make for clear and recorded dialogue with EC. The primary communication was by telephone calls - there were emails as well, but the emails did not fully back up the phone conversations and consequently, some discrepancies arose. They misidentified the "chip" material as being silver or cadmium, when in fact it was steel. Silver and cadmium are non-ferrous and therefore non-magnetic, so it would seem, even to a simple pilot like me, unlikely to be found on a magnetic detector.
Most importantly, they didn't remove the epicyclic as was required by the AMM. Although we don't know what they would have found, there is a fair chance that there would have been a good few more metallic particles.
Therefore I think its unfair of you to blame the inappropriate maintenance actions on EC.