David,

OK, so maybe my use of the words "product bashing" were not wise in the circumstances. The point I was trying to make was that Rob was doing the gentlemanly thing and allowing C-ARF to resolve his problem before he came onto RCU and flamed everyone and everything. I think most level headed people will agree that it is only right to allow a company the right to reply before laying into them publicly. There are many threads that start that way only to be full of replies of "perhaps you should approach the company before coming on here..." etc

There will be an official statement from the factory made very soon which I will publish shortly as soon as I have had the opportunity to discuss it with Rob beforehand. I am sure you can understand that an issue such as this is NOT taken lightly and just glossed over. Instead, a certain amount of analysis has to take place. This cannot be done overnight.

I totally agree with you regarding the safety issues but I would hazard a guess that every manufacturer has had an airframe failure of some sort. Wasn't a very popular US sport jet suffering airframe cracks/failures fairly recently without a mass grounding of all existing aircraft? I am certainly not aware of there being a mass grounding of all aircraft due to a single, isolated, unexplained failure??

Rgds,
Mark