Perhaps the pilots decision not to just call the plane Tech' and walk away was the result of him being informed by HO that most of MYT's other northern based a/c had also thrown sevens and the weekend schedule had already been decimated. Far be it from me to suggest that the pilot should "fudge" some sort of repair in order to avoid adding to MYT's tech problems but it would add up wouldn't it? You could speculate that on another weekend the plane would have been sat and a replacement called in, but as is mentioned elsewhere on PPRUNE there was little or no subcharter capacity and certainly no spare aircraft. It's bad enough that the press have got hold of the story but imagine what a meal they'd make of it they put the weekend's chaos together with it and made a whole new aviation safety story.
Last edited by Frankfurt_Cowboy; 12th Aug 2003 at 21:40.