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Old 10-15-13, 10:56 AM   #4
Tchocky
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Originally Posted by AndyJWest View Post
It is clearly a maintenance hatch in the unpressurised underwing fairing. Not good to lose it, obviously, but unlikely to be safety critical. As for the cause, I see no reason to assume any sort of design fault at this stage - and people can fail to close hatches etc properly on any manufacturers aircraft.
Look at the BA incident with an A319 out of Heathrow a few months ago. More serious in just about every way. Now,there's nothing wrong with the A319 as an aircraft, this incident shows thatsometimes these things happen.
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