Is your mechanic tall enough?

[GaryM]

Because embarrassing, expensive things can happen if you use a short mechanic!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/british-airways-jet-collapsed-nose-152651834.html

 

[midwestpa24]

Because embarrassing, expensive things can happen if you use a short mechanic!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/british-airways-jet-collapsed-nose-152651834.html

This appears to be a known issue with the 787, that the locking pin can be inserted into wrong location. Seems like a design/human factors issue. Although the article doesn't call it such, it sounds like there is a Service Bulletin or AD from Boeing on this, that British Airways hasn't implemented...yet.

 

[ETres]

I've always thought dwarves would make the best mechanics, especially for installing avionics.

 

[Clip4]

Why short people have no reason to live.

 

[Timbeck2]

Why short people have no reason to live.

Im old enough to remember that song

 

[Tarheelpilot]

The mechanics height was not the issue.

 

[GenAv]

I'm surprised they would pull the gear (or whatever maintenance did) without verifying the gear pins.

 

[timrb]

I'm surprised they would pull the gear (or whatever maintenance did) without verifying the gear pins.

Exactly. If I were the "engineer" charged with testing the hydraulics, I would personally check every pin before throwing any switches.

Tim

 

[Silvaire]

FWIW there are a whole bunch of things on a 787 that even a tall mechanic can't reach without a ladder. There are many considerations when designing an aircraft and I'm pretty sure that when creating the access to certain areas they would have an average mechanic scrunch down as far as he could, measure the distance between the top of his head and his foot then build it four inches shorter than that.