I say I don’t know and won’t know until the report comes out in a year or so….and by the way anyone you hear saying they know something, they don’t know either.
I mean it took two large passenger hull losses for them to care about the unairworthy condition on the MAX so
I could have sworn I heard in a NTSB briefing that the pylon was mostly still on the airplane?
I've never worked in the 121 world, so I don't know how taking a stand works out depending on where you are in your career.
Pretty sure they said pylon was attached to departed engine.
Exactly. I think the dramatic video is jarring and spikes peoples emotions, rightfully so. However. MH370 disappeared without a hint of what might have happened. Did the worldwide 777 fleet get grounded, I don't recall that. Fact is now within minutes we can see our friends die in HD and our neighbors are google experts. I'm not saying the timing of the fleet being grounded was appropriate or not.
To this, say it's a 2 day grounding and they inspected the fleet. Are we ok then to accept aircraft or should we still take a stand and say no i don't trust it? At a certain point you need to trust the system. I don't know how to maintain a MD11 but i assume and expect that others below wing do and they do their jobs well. If i didn't, i would find another line of work.
Other way I think, pylon detached with the engine
I was surprised by it being at the behest of the manufacturer.
Depends on how you handled it. You could call in sick. That could buy you a couple weeks. If you blatently articulated why you were witholding services, it would be coded as a refusal to fly. Probably going to get you fired if you persist with that past flight. 121's are usually union and a common phrase is "my union speaks for me". Problem is, there is this thing called the Railway Labor Act (that strangly applies to airline unions). The company can sue the bejesus out of a union that encourages withholding service. Ask American. Unions have to be very careful about how they word things.
Of course I agree with that,
Management culture? Recent post at another forum suggested they wanted to wait until the weekend when the jets are parked anyways to do a NDI inspection of the pylon attach hardware. Don't want to disrupt the system during the week.
This! Maybe it’s the anger stage speaking and maybe it’s not but this is one I’ll never forget. They shouldn’t have been forced to do the right thing when an engine fell off an airplane (let that sink in) that subsequently crashed and killed multiple people.
