Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
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.
Normailisation of deviance.
Culture likely punitive.