787/travel
Very good points, if it's true the testers stumped up to the cockpit.
I reckon that if a test is going to be carried out on any crew, it should be before they enter the aircraft.
If the legal technicality is that the crew aren't performing safety critical tasks until they are on board, change the law. (But I still reckon it's a WOFTAM, absent reasonable grounds in specific circumstances.)
(But perhaps we are ignoring the obvious explanation for the behaviour, which explanation accommodates other facts: Does anyone know what the results of the test were ...
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