Pilot Has Unusual Candor
Wow! I'm a mainline pilot, and have had things like that happen to me more than once. We don't get trained in every aspect of the maintenance side of our aircraft. That's why we have maintenance controllers.
I recently had a maintenance issue in LAS that caused an off-gate delay, ultimately ending with towing back onto the gate for repairs. One passenger was adamant that she wanted off the plane even though it was taken care of.
I had to wonder who would spend a week taking a chance with less than even odds feeding a slot machine but not want to take the chance flying in an airplane that the pilots were perfectly comfortable with?
Another example of how utterly little most people understand about the care and feeding of an airplane.
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