Originally Posted by
pilotguy7
You are right, but I know that owners there are CHEAP! So let's be honest, you get what you pay for. It was not right at all that TSA pencil whipped the snot out of those planes, but I'd bet, the "Via's" went cheap, expected cheap and .. . well, got cheap. Why would you not have your mechanics or a 3rd party go through the planes when accepting them?
Again, TSA was very wrong doing what they did, but management should have done their own du diligence.
They didn’t know any better. In annual and valid airworthiness certificates and currently flying at the sellers airline.....
They repeatedly did not listen to people with decades in 121 operations.... it ultimately cost them the airline.