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inspection would not take a month to schedule

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Actually it might. Any rescheduling will likely take that long in order to coordinate the number of bodies involved. It's been discussed that they only do a next day re-test if the failure is crew action related. Mechanical failures take longer to debrief.

Also, he indicated that the decision to scale back to a one slide test was made only two days ago.

Again, it's complete speculation that there is any validity to the rumor. All I'm saying is that it does make sense.