Well one of them is flying and is legal to fly.. If it wasn’t it would not be.. 🙂

The point is simple.

If the aircraft was carrying parts that were technically not airworthy, it should not have been flying. If it hadn’t been flying, the accident wouldn’t have happened. That is why this report has been released. However, there is clearly some obfuscation here. The parts concerned do not, by my reading of the report have anything to do with the accident. If the aircraft had been fitted with cartridges in calendar life, it would have changed nothing.

No it would not have. However the AAIB have looked at all facets of the maintenance of the airframe with a fine tooth comb as one expects in a air accident (as is their remit). There are things they are concerned about that drove them to raise a special report. The engine inspections overdue or not recorded is more a concern to me than the cartridges. If that had happen to an airline that a range of checks had not been carried out, the frames would have been checked very quickly (and I have seen it happen). If the maintence required to be carried out it is not carried out in the time scales required and no extension / variation applied/granted.. Effective Continued airworthiness management seems to have failed as far as the operator/owner organisation was concerned. AAIB concern..

For our very own Paul (Ozjag) 🙂

Paul has made enquires for me and one will see if XX 741 may or may not get help from one of its old OEMs. We have asked a few questions to the right people and wait for any answer.

IFR Probe system moving with operating lights.

It took seven trips totaling about 30 days to separate the wing, and a another two for the fuselage and wing, about 36 days in total.

Would be interested to hear the ball park figure it cost the UAM to dismantle and move the frame.. I know how much it cost the LPG to move the Lightning, a sum that exceeded 5 figures and they had contacts that allowed that figure to be a lot less than it would have been. If the MoD will not move it, that’s the costs on top of the bidding one.