Hope your company contacts the Orange ones and asks for an explanation? This is the sort of thing the tabloids would love to jump all over. ;-)
Did you ask them to follow you back in and point out the loose panel?
Fortunately (for my company) I do not work for the airline in question I do not know how far
they will push it.
By the time we (as the ground engineering contractor) were informed, the orange Airbus had long gone. (A clever way to jump a slot if you ask me
).
If we had been informed straight away instead of nearly an hour after the a/c had initially left the gate, perhaps we could have avoided the RTS.
- No it isn't, but it should have avoided your delay. How does it go? What are Sop's for .......?
I see what you are getting at now BOAC. Good point, well made. Manually opening and closing the valve(s) and asking the following a/c to confirm operation would have avoided any delay.
