Outsourcing
I notice the article mentions the Alaska Airlines crash. This was a very sad case which is often used as a case study in Human Factors training - a catalogue of issues, errors, mis-management etc etc - but I would like to think that this particular accident is very un-typical of the standard of MRO today.
But I wonder whether this article has a subtext. Much of the US MRO work nowadays is outsourced - particularly overseas for C/D Checks where labour is much cheaper. I understand that US Labour unions have been lobbying the FAA for more stringent checks on overseas FAA Repair Stations. However, this is probable due to protectionism rather than safety concerns, safety is the lever being used to bring the work back in-house?
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