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How weaselly.

> "If [it] was undocumented there would be no documentation to share..."

So... Maybe documentation exists. Maybe not. Either way, maybe they did not share it.

Shouldn't the reporting make it clear how much of a non-answer this is, or are they intentionally writing news reports laced with dry humor?

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It’s a big deal because aviation is one of those highly regulated industries where the documentation not existing is it self a crisis level event. Like VW emissions scandal bad. That’s if it never caused a single incident, which it obviously has.

I fly a 40-year-old Cessna. If someone replaced a light bulb in 1982, I have a record of it.

If you have a record of a light-bulb being replaced in 1982 in your 40-year-old Cessna, you have a record of time travel :)

> I fly a 40-year-old Cessna. If someone replaced a light bulb in 1982, I have a record of it.

How surprising that hobbyist act like hobbyist. When real money gets involved, all of sudden inconvenient things no longer are "critical" so no documentation is needed for them. What a coincidence...

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