[luxuryballs]

Also I’m kinda surprised an airline wouldn’t inspect a newly acquired plane before putting customers in it.

[chx]

The checklist for that is very different from what the manufacturer would do. It would take a lot of time and therefore be very costly to verify every single bolt, rivet and weld was done correctly.

[__loam]

To put this in perspective, every jet airlines has millions of these joins on them.