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United plane allowed to fly without repairs
A United Airlines plane with 112 people aboard was allowed to take off last May without repairs despite indications during two previous flights that the cockpit window was overheating.. (www.kansascity.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Typical.... OPS CHECK OK, and send us on our way. Pilots need to be the last line of "defense" when it comes to this sort of thing. I've refused a plane several times and have been pushed by the chief pilot, but it just wasn't safe. Mx needs to get it together, and airlines need to quit being cheap.
The U.S. enjoys by far the most safe air transportation system in the world, including Europe, that is why so few accidents occur. Let's keep it that way.
Seeing how Boeing Jets run anywhere from 50 to 300 million dollars apiece, I would say cheap is hardly the word I would use here. It is a balancing act, from a corporate perspective, to try and manage risk and the possibility of profit. When air travel is operating at a less profitable load factor, risk increases. Add to that the escalating costs to operate a flight and low cost(high risk) competition, the profit margins go way down. The public cries foul when prices go up, and then they cry foul when risk increases. As a pilot, surely you understand how important it is for you to get a paycheck? Or maybe you would also like to cry foul at how you are worth much more than what you are paid?
What's the tail number of this aircraft?
if i was a pilot i would request that the problem gets fixed before i put it in the air no matter what the cost is and avert an emegerency landing anywhere
So Alan you would take 112 lives, plus say 3 flight attendants and your Co-pilot in your hands with a broken plane to make the company more money?