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Old 31st Dec 2013, 04:48
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Bobbsy
 
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Please allow me as a lowly piece of SLF try to summarise 22 pages of argument, rumour and speculation for the benefit of the lazy journalists mentioned in the previous post.

1. The crew at the pointy end has the ultimate responsibility for accidents like this no matter what contributing factors there might be or how unfair it may seem. I don't think anyone is actually arguing about this.

2. There is a high likelihood that an eventual report will find that there ARE a bunch of contributing factors (anything from bad layout and poor signage at the airport to high workload on the flight deck while taxiing). However all of this is pure speculation at this stage and not worthy of reporting as fact by Mr. Lazy Journalist.

3. Nobody knows yet whether the air frame can be repaired or treated as a write off and this decision will have to come after careful inspection by professionals.

Okay, delete me or ban me for being SLF daring to post but that's how I read all 22 pages of this topic.
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