Originally Posted by
Loose rivets
Oh, and the skipper not writing much detail into his report. I rather think it was 'The less said, the better - if we want to fly the next sector'.
Cynicism based on years of ordinary operational company-biased decision-making..
Your cynicism is justified. Any airline maintenance engineer will be familiar with the phenomenon where snags all seem to appear on the last sector inbound to base, and not down the line where the aircraft would have to be grounded for rectification.
But the Lion Air flight prior to the accident
was returning to CGK, so that doesn't explain the failure to write up the issues properly in the Tech Log.