As far as I have read there is no claim that the inspections were
falsely "signed off". Rather, that the inspections were not done.

Maintenance or inspections of commercial or military aircraft is not a
prerogative of individual mechanics and hasn't been for 50 years or
so. It is all scheduled by a "Maintenance control" department.

Another point that doesn't seem to be a part of the reports is what
was the specified time period for the inspections to be accomplished?
Some requirements are made "before the next flight" but others are
"within the next 50 hours of flying time",or "at time of next 1,000
hour inspection".

You can correct these guys all you want but they won't change their minds.
To them only unions are at fault and never company bosses. They were trained
to think like that by their fathers and facts don't have any impact on their
beliefs. The reason they hate unions so much is because they are envious of
the good, high-paying, high-benefit, jobs union workers have. Not being
unionized they have to settle for the crappy jobs and lower pay that non
union guys get. So they hate the union guys and allege that they work much
harder than them and get paid less for their efforts. No wonder they're
****ed at unions. They wish they had it so good.



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From Scientific American - 31 Jan 08

In 2003 nearly half of all Americans falsely assumed that the U.S.
government had found solid evidence for a link between Iraq and al
Qaeda.

Nearly a quarter of Americans believed that investigators had all but
confirmed the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
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If you took a poll in this newsgroup you would find the same anti union,
right wing guys wouldn't believe the above statement. They would say it came
from a left wing source. They are part of the tiny percentage of lunatics
that still believe there were WMDs in Iraq and al Qaeda was pals with Saddam
Hussein. They're in their own separate reality. Facts have no bearing on
them and they don't believe anything unless Rush or Sean tells them it's
okay. The sad thing is they actually let these guys vote.


Hawke