Originally Posted by
DType
Yes, I was pressurised many times by managers to sign off faulty equipment, so I always said that if I was really creating a fuss about nothing then they were welcome to overrule me and sign it off themselves. They never did.
Even managers can be overruled.
The supervisors who discovered that Boeing subcontractors AHF Ducommun were hand making poorly fitting 737NG airframe parts contrary to type certification, were told by their managers that they were not allowed to reject substandard parts and to ‘make them fit’. In most cases ‘making them fit’ involved either re-drilling misaligned holes or beating the panels into place.
Both the Justice Department and the FAA have evidence of this but decided not to take it any further and the two supervisors were dismissed.