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Aviation maintenance at 4am or not at all
Flew into Dallas Love Field for a quick turn last Tuesday and watched the line crew miss a cracked brake disc. Walked over, pointed at the scoring. They had the logbook out, but no one had actually looked at the wheels. Ten minute turnaround, sure, but this is how tires fail on rollout. I get the pressure to keep schedules, but a visual wheel check takes 90 seconds. You can't skip the walk-around for a connection. Anyone else catching line teams that rush the preflight when the inbound is late?
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maxhart1mo ago
Two years ago I would have said the line guys know their planes better than some random passenger, but a cracked disc at Love Field changed that for me. You spotted it before they did, and that 90 second walk-around is the whole reason preflight exists.
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