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Article: Dancing on the foul line.(aircraft maintenance )(Brief article)
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- Mech
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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The flight deck is a place where decisions are made at a moment's notice, and maintainers make many of them in a day. You can't afford to make bad ones. You learn the things you should do and many things you shouldn't, but it is important to remember to put safety first. We didn't and learned a lesson the hard way.
We were running around the deck, trying to do our job as fast as possible. As soon as our aircraft came in for a hot-pump and hot-seat evolution, we moved in quickly to put on chains.
We went under the nose of the aircraft, which was parked inboard of the island and right next to the foul line. That safety item is a red-and-white line painted ...