Originally Posted by
Kratz
Hey folks, what's the right answer to the following interview question?
Let's say you fly from LEJ to some place in Asia and have a quick layover in the middle east. You are fully loaded with 100 tons of a valuable cargo which would rot if it was left where you are. Let's say very rare tomatoes. During the walkaround you as a FO notice, that one of the NAV lights doesn't work. You check the MEL and find out it's a no dispatch situation. There is no possibility of a quick repair. The old man wants to fly. What do you do? Do you refuse to fly like that or do you both pretend you didn't see anything and go? You have to make a decision now as you are already on the limit regarding the max duty time.
Here is a real story.
A plane took off from a nice island.
There was a non significant visible issue, which the crew elected to ignore (to save the day, the flight, blah blah).
Ground crew dropped an email to the company, regarding that issue. As an observation. They did not mean to harm anyone.
Guess who lost his job and had his license suspended….