“It was found lodged behind the low-pressure compressor (LPC) blades.”
I think every screwdriver I’ve ever bought is lodged in the exact same place.
Heads should roll as the proper response. They had a system, the system would have been effective if followed, but the responsible people flat out didn't follow it because it was an inconvenience to them. Perish the thought of having to get out of their cushy seats to keep looking for a tool until it was found!
Maybe the rest of them would run better if these things were left in the engines. ;^)
Anyone else find it weird how every time you find something that’s missing, it’s always in the last place you looked?
Has anyone seen my basin wrench?
nobody noticed the empty space on the pegboard???
Oh, My! A long time ago, before automobiles became computerized, I just loved tuning up, maintenance, etc. Timing and dwell, points and gappers, advancing or retarding the distributor.
A coworker found out, and asked me to look at his car. He kept buying new batteries, but they would die. I drove the car to my home, popped the hood, and there, on top of the wheel well, was a hack saw. Turns out the coworker’s brother had cut the serpentine belt because the air conditioning would not turn off. I told the coworker to NEVER let his brother near the car again.
Boy that's reassuring isn't it?!
I drove from Chicago to Philadelphia with only 1 lug nut attached, other 4 lug nits loose inside the wheel cover.
In Pennsylvania, at a gas station, the attendant checked fluid levels and I resumed driving through mountainous roads there. At next stop I open the hood to check fluid levels and discovered the brake fluid reservoir cover was left open and the brake fluid had escaped all over the engine. Luckily enough brake fluid was left to stop the car.
When I worked aircraft maintenance in the Air Force, ALL tools had to be accounted for when we returned to the shop.
Also, EVERY screw, nut, or bolt dropped must be recovered no matter what had to be taken apart to get to it.
Heads should roll.
they joined the mile high club...
A few years back I had my Range Rover serviced. Two or three weeks later I popped the hood and found a large wrench like device in a cavity near the window wash fluid container. Called the dealership and they, as it was an unusual tool used only for a specific repair, immediately sent someone over to retrieve it.
The employee told me they had looked for it everywhere in the shop area as apparently it was an expensive tool, used infrequently so they only had one in their tool inventory.
I have found that bulldozers are notorious for swallowing tools into their belly pans such tools never to be seen again.
And on the best flight possible to lose an engine halfway: Sydney <—> LA. At least 10 hours over the Pacific.
They bought their tickets.
They knew what they were getting in to.
I say, let-um crash!
They do way a way better job at Uncle Ed’s oil change.
Yikes - why was that aircraft not Red X’d?
Don’t they use tool cutouts and chits for tools taken out of toolboxes and the master toolkits?
And then check for tool accountability at the end of the worksheet?
Good grief.
I belong to the 10 millimeter socket of the month club
Please. The sort of thing has nothing to do with Airbus. Or Boeing. Or Embraer. Or any other aircraft MANUFACTURER.
It has Everything to do with bad tool discipline at the airline. They violated 100% tool accountability.