Close your hangar door
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 12:07 am
...when doing work on your airplane.
Alright, admittedly we’ll never know for sure what the first link was in the chain that ended in this:
https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/61500-61999 ... 621218.pdf
...but I can see it playing out there exactly the same as it has around me before, when someone will be wrenching on their airplane and another well-meaning individual (or worse - a crowd) walks in and strikes up a conversation. Distractions happen, things get missed, it gets late, I end up being offered a plane to fly that had no cotter pins or safety wire forward of the firewall. Good thing a good portion of the engine was visible on the walk around to get me looking deeper.
So what’s my point? Well, umm, I guess you can either have a good helper who actually helps, or you can lock the hangar door and tell everyone to screw off so you don’t miss crap.
Alright, admittedly we’ll never know for sure what the first link was in the chain that ended in this:
https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/61500-61999 ... 621218.pdf
...but I can see it playing out there exactly the same as it has around me before, when someone will be wrenching on their airplane and another well-meaning individual (or worse - a crowd) walks in and strikes up a conversation. Distractions happen, things get missed, it gets late, I end up being offered a plane to fly that had no cotter pins or safety wire forward of the firewall. Good thing a good portion of the engine was visible on the walk around to get me looking deeper.
So what’s my point? Well, umm, I guess you can either have a good helper who actually helps, or you can lock the hangar door and tell everyone to screw off so you don’t miss crap.