Reliability, Certification, and Maintenance
 

An interesting thread developing, the underlying philosophies of which might interest our engineering and technician brothers.... when one is faced with making on-the-run decisions in the real world with commercial pressures breathing down one's neck.... and one doesn't know everything which has gone into providing the aircraft on which one is working ......

On the subject, there's a website at http://ethics.tamu.edu/ that is well worth looking at, particularly the two guest contributions that are there at the moment.

The paper by the legal chappie about the result of cases where aircraft technicians in the US have been sacked for refusing to sign-off unsafe aircraft is quite chilling.

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To Genghis the Engineer
 

Having trouble opening your link fully. :(

Works fine from both my home and work connections, must be your end I think.

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Got it now, thanks. (Makes for interesting reading.)