Originally Posted by
cessnapete
Correct. As in a past airline career, when offered a Load sheet or Tech Log showing an aircraft as serviceable, it is normally accepted. Short of the Captain personally counting the bags in the hold, and weighing the freight, or checking every maintenance operation, one accepts that your highly qualified colleagues have done their job.
Not that this stops the Police/CPS when it comes to road accidents.
Do you remember the case of the multiple fatalities caused by a lorry with defective brakes going out of control down a hill in I think the city of Bath.
Both the maintenance people, the owners AND the lorry driver were charged with manslaughter.
The jury threw out the charge against the lorry driver- though it was aided in their decision that the driver had only been in the job a short while and might well reasonably not known about the dire maintenance state the company seemed to run its vehicle(s) in.