Stay calms folks, lets not start to sound like media here and lets get the facts first.........Personally i would be mortified if the LE was like this at the gate.
So, assuming there were some professionals doing thier jobs while the A/C was at the gate, how could this have occurred?
Please, offer more serious, views from those with greater engineering knowledge, but I proffer the following:
1. Something hit it while under its own steam (highly unlikely not to have been noticed....);
OR
2. As previously suggested, (and IMHO, likely) mechanical failure during deployment.
Either way, another embarrassing engineering failure at the rat.
Question, WHO at QF really cares? The B743 is basically at the end of its life, put her down gently while there is a modicom of respect left.
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