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A night shift at O'Hare taught me to triple-check the logbook
We were turning a 737 for a red-eye and the captain signed off a minor pressurization note as 'checked, ops normal'. I pulled the maintenance manual anyway and found a service bulletin from two years ago about a specific sensor in that exact system. The plane would have been legal to fly, but it would have had the old, less reliable part. Now I never just trust the book entry, I always cross-reference with the latest bulletins. Anyone else get burned by an outdated logbook entry?
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owens.anthony2mo ago
Ever check the bulletin date against the logbook entry date? I got in the habit of doing that after a similar thing, makes you catch those gaps.
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roberts.leo2mo ago
But what do you do when the bulletin itself gets revised? That date check only works if the first version was correct.
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