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Re: AA Plane Loses Panel in Flight, Flies to Paris Anyway Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:18:03 +0200

whitely525@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On 8 May, 19:52, john_k...@hotmail.com (John Kulp) wrote:
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>>On Thu, 08 May 2008 14:27:18 -0400, "Steven L."
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>> wrote:
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>>The real reason they didn't return being they would have lost 100,000
>>pounds of fuel. His argument about cargo shifting is bullshit,
>>because cargo shifts can cause a plane to crash and, if he thought
>>that was the cause, he certainly should have done something about it
>>other than just fly on.
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> Just think of the delay it would have caused. I bet a passenger vote
> would have been to get on with it.
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> More focus should be why it fell off and what corrective/preventative
> actions need to be taken.
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The thing that strikes me as giving most ground for concern is, if the
maintenance is so careless that an inspection panel falls off, what
state is the other 99.9% of the aircraft in?

T.