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Old 8th Oct 2015, 17:35
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Originally Posted by wanabee777
Who picked up the tab for that costly mistake???
Cessnapete is correct - Boeing ate it. Although it occurred on a customer acceptance flight, the airplane still technically belonged to Boeing.

And here I'd intentionally not specified who the guilty operator was

Eckhard, 12 seconds is fast - on most of our current aircraft it takes about a minute before the engine shuts down if only the spar valve closes (been there, done that)
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