Lazy Mechanic Causes Passenger Plane To Fall Apart | Mayday: Accident Files Series 03 Episode 09

When something goes wrong “it’s not his job”. If they’re in a hurry or a man down..

Every single mechanic including myself need to remember that we are responsible for the life of the pilot/driver. Do the very best job and triple check if you have to. Even if it means the job will take longer. A life is worth more than what we make. Be a perfectionist. Please mechanics.

This is why when I work on cars, I am meticulous. If i see a issue, it gets resolved, I don't ignore it or leave it.

This reminds me of what happened on the tugboat that I worked on. We were replacing a few injectors on the 12 cylinder diesel engine, a EMD general motors. I decided to help out because we were in a hurry. I was replacing one of the injectors fuel lines when one of my work mates took over. He thought that I had tightened down the fuel lines. I hadn't and it was squirting diesel fuel into the crankcase of the engine. Luckily we were quite low on fuel and noticed that it was disappearing faster than it should and someone lifted the valve cover, which just sits on top of the engine on that model. The lesson here is when someone takes over a job that someone else is doing, be very careful to notice what he has already done. Or better yet just make sure that one person completes the job he started. These kinds of mistakes can happen so easy when you have people working together.

This wasn't laziness it was compliancy and someone thinking they know more than the Aircraft Maintenance Manual. It's scary how many of those mechanics you will come across in this industry! I have seen my fair share for sure! And yes I did something about it just like everyone should!

Hilarious

First one. So they had to get on top to do the right side yet never at any point took a look at the left side?

So with the first crash did the second crew not realize they had a bunch of screws leftover?

Seems like there must have been other circumstances involved. Laziness not a likely reason. Incompetence or other factors seem more likel.

Shadys of Alaskan flight 261! RIP

Did the supervisor land in prison? I hear there are guys in prison who love a pretty boy lending them a hand.

You mean nobody checked the back end of 2574? That seems like negligence on 2 shifts

I thought the Texas Rangers investigated 🔎 airplane ✈️ crashes. I was looking forward to seeing Walker, the Texas ranger, and his Dodge 2500 pickup truck find out what happened.

imagine causing a crash because the mechanics only had bunk unofficial bolts that were half as strong as a normal one... what did that save them maybe a hundred dollars??

Lazy people always get hired on very sensitive jobs

it's so much safer to take a train, a car, or even a mule than an airplane...

That’s like shooting down our own plane here on American soil. It’s not the mechanics fault, it’s the airlines for not caring enough about human lives they transport. I’m never going to fly again. Seriously! Airlines do not take human lives seriously. Why should they care. They’re just rolling in the dough. Airlines allow to much to happen just to get by for the days work and money. Mechanics do repairs that they have never done before and doing the repairs by the seat of their pants. These checklist faults and air crashes are due to human error. We put our lives in the airlines, mechanics and pilots hands, trusting we will get home safely.

It's astounding that a simple and common practice like never leaving a job incomplete for the next shift, is not standard in the airline industry. It's not even difficult to accomplish, you just make sure the job you're doing is finished before you freaking leave, this way each shift only ever has to worry about what THEY are doing.

I'm not going to lie, I find it pretty relieving that they use software to track the maintenance work now, I was sitting here wondering how anything has changed since we still have to rely on them to do the right work.... then again, I suppose they could still enter that they did the work when they didn't, it's only gone from lying on paper to lying on a screen. I guess the damn plane itself needs sensors or something on every damn major part.... how scary, infuriating, and sad

The maintenance workers on the planes when something goes wrong are the charged.

For the first crash, as a retired airline captain and an A&P/IA, I find it incredulous that a final visual inspection wasn't completed by the last maintenance inspector before releasing the aircraft for service. Taking someone's word for it when an actual inspection is required is the final broken link in the maintenance chain of events that sealed the fate of this flight. There is zero room for complacency in aircraft maintenance and operations. Murphy will win every time.

For the second crash (and the first) I think it would be good procedure to require a digital image of every repair completed, taken by the releasing inspector. This would greatly enhance everyone's awareness of every repair completed as well as anyone's desire to be in a hurry to complete any repair and shove the airplane out the door.

Born in the month of May I don’t find the term “May Day” funny. Why did anyone choose May or even the name of a month for these frightening situations? Why not “sun days or moon days?”. Just reflecting.

CHINESE BOLTS shame stop buying from China

Made in China bolts.

As much as I like this show, the one problem I see is that it seems to promote more regulations and laws and more power given to the government as the solution these problems. As someone who has dealt with government agencies for years, many government employees are just as, if not more, apathetic and careless as these mechanics. Relatively few are as solid as this show portrays these investigators. Governments are made of people, not superhumans. History has proven again and again that power corrupts and more government oversight is not the answer.

The title is so misleading on this video. What happened is the company wanted more done than is physically possible due to their staffing so the inspector got up there and helped tear it down in an attempt to meet a deadline. The Mech working on it failed to write up that they screws were removed, the next shift failed to do the whole job and never questioned why there were extra screws left over and sent it out anyway. As a Mechanic I’ve never done anything like this but I have been let go for not doing things faster than humanly possible before. I would argue that computerized records make it easier for companies to hide issues because in the old days you couldn’t fake my stamp and signature on the forms but with a computer you could type in the RFID of my badge and show that I signed off something that I didn’t. The company also controls access to these records so they can limit what an investigator sees or has access to.

I participated in conex pilot development program at sanjac college; glad I'm not an airline pilot!!!

I was an A&P for 15 years. I ended up quitting because my immediate supervisor at my last job was employing completely untrained people and was letting unprofessional stuff go through. This was on planes that were flown and owned by people that trusted me. I ended up in a completely different career.

Switching form pen and paper to computer entry of maintenance logs would not have stopped that first accident. The person who didn't write down the left-side stabilizer wouldn't have entered it into the computer either. The problem was: Unauthorized people performing maintenance tasks.

If they knew about the broken part, then why did they send the plane out? Being delayed is better than not making it to your destination. Those inferior bolts were the final nail in the coffin.

At the 56 second mark. That wasn't pieces of luggage flying out of the plane, those were people.😂😂😂😂

I love this

Or . Sabotage for gain of more control or power of air control and policies

Jesus Christ, after watching all the horrific crashes on this show, don't feel like getting on an airplane again! A thousand things can go wrong, (even a few nuts and bolts and screws!) Every pilot in training should be made to watch these documentary series.

"A small plane with a big impact." Really?

Incompetent mechanic and hot dog pilots equals incidents like in the video above. When the holes of the Swiss cheese line up, it never ends well.

Does anyone know if the supervisor lost his job???

That bunch of dudes. I hope they felt like hell to know they killed every one on that plane and I hope when they go to bed at night they can’t sleep and when the boss that bunch sleep then I were there boss I would te

Ck boieng

As a lifelong mechanic... the old "spare parts joke" should NOT apply to aircraft...
Like 40 bolts... or evem a single cotter pin...

“The recorder was sent to Washington for further analysis” in a pirates treasure box.

First story. Wait a minute. No explanation was made as to WHY a small strip of stabilizer falling off could suddenly, immediately pitch the craft into a downward motion, where the plane has lost all control, going at speeds where it breaks apart in mid air, crashing into the ground at 300 mph, and where it was so violent, that it incapacitated the pilots to the extent that the couldn't communicate with each other. That doesn't pass any sort of test to me. I've seen videos of planes where they lose the stabilizer entirely, and it doesn't behave like that. Sure they crash, but it shows a totally different flight path to the ground.

Must been a boeing

I fix cars.. this is why I train others and tell them to make sure EVERY nut,bolt, and washer is there

I tell every trainee

“ if it wasn’t meant to be there it never would have left the factory with it. “

Second case: whats the odds them crashing into a scrap yard 😮

Just saw this one on mayday...... Sad

You guys thoroughly investigate the reason for the accident but what about the lives that are taken

Sad😢😢😢😢 maintenance people should go to jail this makes me mad 😠 😡 😤

There has to be a way of keeping these mechanic's faults from happening. It's insane to lose all those lives and expensive airplanes by such careless and small things.