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Old April 9th, 2008, 12:11   #26
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Default Re: American parks all MD-80's for inspections

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Originally Posted by Doug Taylor View Post
Yeah, but fleet age and air safety aren't necessarily related though.

Otherwise, we'd be dropping KC-135's, B-52's and AWACS all the time, cuz them's reeeeeal old!
I know that!

The issue with American has to do with the MD80, if it had to do with older aircraft, then some of those A300 aircraft would be having problems....

Just thought the illustration on the age of airline aircraft was interesting....
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