Originally Posted by
heliduck
A good pre-flight inspection will prevent most crashes, after “routine maintenance” I struggle to understand why you wouldn’t put your fingers on every bolt/nut that was tampered with!
You can certainly have a good look at what has been worked on but there is no way that you can see or access all the nuts, bolts and other components that may have been worked on by engineers. You have to trust them and that is why critical components require duplicate inspections after they have been worked on.
If there was an engineering error in this case then the individuals, systems and working practices need to be investigated to find out where it went wrong.