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Old 1st Dec 2016, 23:10
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Boxter
 
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Cost Cutting Company.
The RJs that they operated where stored at Norwich for a considerable time. I was contacted re Ferrying the aircraft to Venezuela.
They would not allow the aircraft to have a shake down flight before the ferry, as they deemed it not necessary. After many weeks they shipped in their own crew to take the aircraft. They could not operate the GNS nav computer, they dispatched with a fuel stop in Glasgow.
After refuelling in Glasgow and putting in copious amounts of oil in to one of the engines they dispatched for Iceland, surprise surprise loss of oil in the engine required a shutdown and return to the UK.

Following flight had dangerous goods on board, MOR I believe was submitted by the maintainance company, plus fines from Canada and the USA for transiting their airspace with dangerous goods on board.
The company representatives who came over to the U.K. Where very pushy and would not listen to any one.
A very tragic preventable accident.
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