----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger LaFrance" <lafrance@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 9:41 AM <snip> > Overseas, the 138 FAA-certified repair stations in France, Germany and > Ireland are inspected not by the FAA but by aviation authorities in those > countries. Their reports to the FAA were, in some cases, "incomplete or > incomprehensible," many of them written in a foreign language, Mead said. > > I'd guess that some of those incomprehensible reports were in French or German! Let's hope none of the reports were in Irish. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://www.wilowud.net/ http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html