In the ongoing court case the Director of Quality face 600 years in jail
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The Errors in the System and Latent Errors not addressed enough in the report, apparently.
This accident needed and warranted a full blown Dryden style to change things and culture.
Time Pressure on Mechanics and pilots was a factor and still exists, this needs to be addressed. The hurry up syndrome.
So that maintenance guys are not pressured .
Human factor was huge in as by not hearing the Warning the crew felt they were safe.
Definitely DGAC and AESA had committed errors in their supervision that contributed to the accident.
What are the Spanish authorities doing to fix this now ?
Final Report in Spanish
http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyr...2008_032_A.pdf
One thing that is coming out is that there was complacency in Deferring Defects in general.
Extension of Deferred Defects in the MEL will not be given out so easily in Spain. Dont know if Extension of Deferred Defects will be affected in