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Ida down
EBG, was an interesting aircraft. It had a very distinctive tearing noise on the flight deck, each take off. Needless to say, many crews found it quite disconcerting, and repeatedly entered it in the Tech Logs. So they decided to pull her off line, and bascially gave her a phase check, even though she was not due, and pulled the flight deck apart, x rayed all parts, and found nothing. So they put her back together and back on line she went, only to continue the unusual noise, and the complaint in the logs continued. Probably still doing it, in some African country, where she does the milk run.
Probably one of those mysteries that were never solved... wasn't there an anomaly within the 747-338 fleet that one or two of the airframes burned more fuel and no one could ever determine why... or was that solved at some stage???