Florida
Related: About this forumAmerican Airlines mechanic in Miami charged with sabotaging plane. It aborted takeoff.
An American Airlines mechanic was arrested Thursday on a sabotage charge accusing him of disabling a navigation system on a flight with 150 people aboard before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport earlier this summer.
The reason, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court: Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, a veteran employee, was upset over stalled union contract negotiations.
None of the passengers and crew on the flight to Nassau were injured because the tampering with the so-called air data module caused an error alert as the pilots powered up the planes engines on the runway July 17, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court.
As a result, flight No. 2834 was aborted and taken out of service for routine maintenance at Americas hangar at MIA, which is when the tampering with the ADM system was discovered during an inspection. An AA mechanic found a loosely connected tube in front of the nose gear underneath the cockpit that had been deliberately obstructed with some sort of hard foam material.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article234766107.html
still_one
(91,947 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 8, 2019, 09:11 AM - Edit history (1)
happened here
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)The airplane has a self check that compares one side against the other. Every crew also cross checks the instruments early in the takeoff roll.
still_one
(91,947 posts)the work
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)The one in question will lose his certification forever and never work in the industry again.
In the business jet world you often only have one mechanic working on the airplane. I suppose it's possible some airlines require two to sign off, but it wouldn't be a FAA requirement.