Originally Posted by
engineer(retard)
And the airworthiness world was in a state of churn with the MAA standing up. The understanding from the projects that I worked on at this time was that the evidential bar was being lifted considerably higher.
So you are saying that the aeroplane at the time it was about to tenter service didn't have the documentation to allow certification against a set of requirements which didn't exist at that time and only existed later. That's not really surprising. The real question is whether, after the introduction of the new standards, it would have been possible to generate the required documentation then. The advice I'm given by members of the project team who are still colleagues is "yes, there were no fundamental blockers, although it would have cost quite a lot".
But of course at that time (late 2010) the Harier, Tornado, Typhoon and various helicopters didn't meet sthe subsequent regulations either.
PDR