Originally Posted by
sb_sfo
I worked for UA and transferred to ORD in May of 1980, and worked on a crew with the guys that discovered the UA -10 that caused the grounding of the fleet when it was discovered to have an engine about ready to fall off. Those guys told me that Percy Wood, the CEO of UA came out to the field that night and asked the mechanics whether they thought the fleet should be grounded. Can you imagine an airline CEO doing that these days?
nowadays they never step out of their office and only know how to say it was "pilots error"!