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      "date": "2026-08-13",
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        "description": "Section \"Shutdown and Securing\" item count differs between passes (14 vs 13); verify nothing was dropped.",
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        "severity": "content_gap",
        "description": "Section \"Starting Engine\" item count differs between passes (10 vs 13); verify nothing was dropped.",
        "location": "Starting Engine"
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        "severity": "content_gap",
        "description": "Section \"Taxi\" item count differs between passes (3 vs 2); verify nothing was dropped.",
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    "notes": "Transcribed from the freechecklists.net archive under the author's reuse grant. Individual checklist wording may be substantially the source's; per-file contributor authorship is unknown."
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        {
          "type": "note",
          "text": "11 July 2007 Blackhawk Aviation, El Paso, TX",
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