Ethics In Aviation

In the aviation industry all the process of maintenance are very important, it doesn’t matter if the maintenance task is easy or hard, if one person from the maintenance department failed to follow the procedure or cutting corners during performing maintenance, it could result in injury, long term health hazards, or death to the pilot, fellow maintainers, and civilians.

For example, the crash of Cessna 172 from Venice, Florida on September 20 this year, According to General Aviation News “The FAA inspector who investigated the crash found that the connecting hardware for the linkage between the fuel injector servo and the throttle cable was missing. The missing bolt, washer, and nut were subsequently found loose inside the engine cowling.”, “Maintenance personnel’s failure to use the correct throttle linkage hardware and resulting in a disconnection of throttle during flight.”

To Sum up everything that has been stated so far, the manual is created for a reason for maintainers to follow, and it is very important that when doing maintenance, we should always double check the maintenance that we are performing, making sure that we did the maintenance right according to the manual, so that it’s not going to end up like the Cessna 172.

Reference: General Aviation News