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Old Dec 15, 2004 | 7:09 am
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Originally Posted by alex69uk
If the CO's losing pieces can be proven to be the direct result of neglected/poor maintenance legal action is in order.
I believe the issue is not that the strip fell off, but that CO used titanium rather than aluminium (as specified by Boeing), which would not have damged the tyres.
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