Originally Posted by
Smott999
I did indeed mean “flight/maintenance engineer” as mentioned up-thread per avherald, placed onboard as “anticipatory measure”.
....mostly to rebut the notion that FC had not read the log or been prepared for similar issues to the prior flight.
Ah, I get your point.
The horrifying part is that you may well be right - that someone in the organisation was worried that the crew might find themselves with a barely controllable aircraft for the second sector in a row.