Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111001:16:17:00
It's a troubling maintenance practice. >> the whole issue of the accident centered on the maintenance practice of changing an engine with this pylon attached as opposed to the more correct and approved procedure, which is to take the engine away from the pylon away from the engine while attached to the airplane. >> the manufacturer recommending detaching the engine to the pylon, but leaving the pylon attached to the wing. at the time, engineers from several airlines were using a shortcut. they found if the pylon and engine were removed in one piece, they could change the engine more quickly. >...
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