With all respect to the AAIB and all others involved, i have difficulties
understanding
the bearing of the report. Since there are a lot of flying Europa's,
mine being one of them, i would prefer to ask explanation and remaining
questions
to be answered, even if this keeps wounds open.
Witnesses saw and heard the plane. How many witnesses and where were they
standing?
The radar had a possible bird echo. Have any of the witnesses seen a flock
of birds and the plane trying to avoid them? Has the question been asked to
them?
The plane was inspected and given the green signal just before the accident. The
paperwork was excellent. Does that mean the obligatory VNE dive had already
been done that day?
There is no validation in the report about the quality of the inspection,
although
the plane broke up shortly after. There is no recommendation for improvement
of these inspections, other then a case triggered inspection on the points
involved. I have seen only a few PFA inspected builds and planes myself, and
some
of them had obvious build and or repair AND inspection failures. There seems
to be a culture of trying to keep problems under the table and out of sight.
This all makes me wonder where the responsibilities are and should be.
Others have landed with disengaged anti-trim-tab lift pins, although the forces
were excessive. However, disengaged trim tabs are not taken in account as the
failure triggering event. Did i miss the reasoning behind that?
Regards,
Jos Okhuijsen
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