Originally Posted by
Mark_T
As far as I can see it was 'easily on hand' or it wouldn't have been possible to get it there as 'quickly' as they did.
As mentioned earlier, this was far more likely to be a labor bottleneck than the lack of the part.
Labor bottleneck is a critical path for takeoff times which eventually beget government fines but the person waiting to install it was there for I believe 45 minutes waiting for the part before Mr. cheesy grin turned up with the part.
The bureaucracy and paperwork I'm sure played a part in all this.
Luckily I had no connection so it didn't really bother me but I was joking with the flight crew and they agreed it was absurd not to be carrying a spare holder for what it's worth. I'm not sure if only the old style 767's need this bracket and the newer planes use something different? I know the 777 had it's own large screen personal tablet In the time of the Apple Newton
. I almost ended up working on it before the plane was released to the World
