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A and C
As to the time the repair has taken, it looks to me as if the legal wrangling and getting the logistics sorted has taken longer than fixing the aircraft. I think Boeing have done rather well, after all this is the first major field repair of a large composite airliner being done by a company that is not yet well versed in composite repair techniques and no doubt being hindered by those who know a lot about metal aircraft and very little about composites.
I seem to remember that in all the earlier questioning of composite fuselages, it was always emphasised by Boeing that it was not an unknown, that they had done military aircraft fuselages like this, they therefore had all the experience necessary of field operations, they were the experts ..... yadda yadda yadda.
Which is correct ?