Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
The actual report: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fss.aero&#x2F;accident-reports&#x2F;dvdfiles&#x2F;PT&#x2F;2001-08-24-PT.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fss.aero&#x2F;accident-reports&#x2F;dvdfiles&#x2F;PT&#x2F;2001-08-24-...</a><p>One of my pet peeves: the first 7 &quot;causes and contributing factors&quot; effectively blames the engine technicians for taking shortcuts. Nowhere does it say anything about the scheduling pressure from management that made the technicians consider shortcuts in the first place. If you have hiring and firing power and you tell someone they need to get the plane back in the air a few days later, they will do things to get the plane back in the air a few days later.<p>This is considered simply a &quot;risk&quot; by the report, and not a direct cause. As a consequence, the actual actions taken basically all belong to the category of &quot;fix the engineers&quot;, &quot;fix the flight crew&quot;, or &quot;fix the plane&quot;. Not a single &quot;fix the stressful maintenance environment&quot;.