26 Jan 2007

Aircraft Maintenance: "Pain-In-The-Ass"

The photo below shows details of a crack in a US Airways DC-9 window. Regular fliers would be advised that they should be beware of the potential for sub-standard maintenance on the airplanes that they fly on.

Even at the distance that the shot was taken, the crack is clearly visible within the window pane of the fifth window from the left, and has a regular top to bottom patterning, with separate spots around this.

It makes you wonder about the bums associated with aircraft maintenance and the cheek that some of them have claiming skills in this area.

Perhaps I'm being somewhat anal about this, but when it comes to flight safety, there is no such thing as too careful and you really don't want some total arse dumping on you and spoiling things.

Anyway, I've waxed lyrical about this (perhaps with a touch of verbal diarrhea) so I'll let the picture speak for itself.





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