Kurt Ullman wrote in news:kurtullman-
:

In article ,
"TMOliver" wrote:


There's no point in attempting to fix blame, as it rests on both the
airline's and the FAA shoulders.

TMO

My understanding is that the latest round is a redo of a redo.
None of these are new directives and the most recent ones were related
to airworthiness directives the FAA gave them 18 months to implement.
Then FAA comes in, audits finds that they did not do it right, and makes
them do what they shoulda done in the first place.
Don't see where the FAA has any blame in this one. Also, nothing in
the press reports about inspectors getting cozy with the airline like
the hooha at Southwest.


Or, more likely, the FAA found a piece of paperwork not filled out to their
satisfaction.

You are aware that by FAA rules, a pilot can fly an aircraft fro A to B,
let another pilot fly it from B to C and back, and the fly it from B to D
and the flights from A to B and B to D are in a perfectly airworthy
aircraft while for the flights from B to C and back the aircraft was not
airworthy? (At no time was the aircraft inspected by a mechanic nor any
mechanical changes made to the aircraft from the departure at A to the
arrival at D.)

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