I suspect it depends on the wing/engine interface.
Indeed.
Presuming you work where I presume you do, I shall give due weight to your comments.
A great value of PPRuNe is the wealth of serious knowledge which is available from folks such as your goodself.
they should have grounded the entire fleet where located
As I understood the tale, it was an inappropriate one-off during the early post-introduction days of the model and not at all typical of the operation .. which was every bit as tight as that at the other mob for which I flew.
Interestingly, I don't recall any discussion of the chines during my endorsement on the Type around the same time. I guess the importance to the performance numbers hadn't filtered down to appropriate training levels within the system ?