Pre-flight checks?
Back in January I and a few other people sat on the apron at Birmingham for an hour and a half while engineers tried to fix a fault in the cockpit. Eventually they left and we were told that although they hadn't been able to fix the problem it wasn't an important instrument so they'd cleared us to take off.
So..important enough to spend an hour and a half trying to fix but not important enough to cancel the flight.
I see :-/
Biting the hand that feeds IT
