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Passenger fixes faulty airliner
Holidaymakers avoided a long delay to their flight home when a passenger fixed a mechanical problem with their plane.
Passengers on Thomas Cook flight TCX9641 from Menorca were told to expect an eight-hour wait while an engineer was flown out from the UK.
One passenger then identified himself as a qualified aircraft engineer and offered to try to remedy the fault. [Full Article]
Just curious if the airline would have a policy requiring one of their own mechanics to work on the plane.I t could be a big liability but I think its cool that he did it.
From the article, the mechanic/passenger who did the work is employed by Thomsonfly, who have a reciprocal maintenance agreement with Thomas Cook, so he was permitted to do the work. I doesn't sound like they would have let someone from a random airline work on it, since he would probably not be familiar with Cook's approved procedures or even the configuration of that particular aircraft.Quote:
Originally Posted by planelove
If you have to do something right you have to do it yourself....
Sounds like a guy I fly with who used to be a maintainer...