Outsourcing safety: Airplane repairs move to unregulated foreign shops

[Javaman]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39383369/ns/travel/

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Last year, US Airways Flight 518, traveling from Omaha to Phoenix, had to be diverted to Denver because the pressure seal on the main cabin was leaking. A mechanic at the Aeroman repair shop in El Salvador had put a part of the plane's door on backward, according to a National Public Radio report.

Lawmakers and aviation safety experts are raising new concerns about the outsourcing of plane repairs, especially to shops in other countries that are less closely supervised than domestic shops.

More maintenance has moved overseas. Airlines are not required to use regulated repair shops. Foreign repair stations can go five years between inspections, and even then are often tipped off that inspectors are coming. Manuals are in English, but not all the workers read English. Drug tests of workers are illegal in some countries.

A News21 analysis of Federal Aviation Administration data showed that about 15,000 accidents or safety incidents in all aviation travel can be attributed at least in part to inferior maintenance or repairs since 1973, when the FAA started keeping such records. In these accidents at least 2,500 people died and 4,200 were injured.

[OHdem10]

1. And the Free Traders bristle and get their backs up when people

like me say Multinationals roam the planet seeking the
cheapest labor.

And Republicans on the Hill would say this is why we need DEREGULATION.
We run businesses away because of high salaries and all the
safety rules.

Just a thought on my observations.

[Billy Burnett]

2. The same repigs say we must protect America and Americans at all costs (via defense budgets)..

But gawd forbid we protect America and Americans economically.

Repigs want to protect property and corporations. Not people.

[Romulox]

3. People think that there is some sort of cheap labor line that will be crossed when it's THEIR job

THEIR health, THEIR safety on the line...

Um, nope. Hypocritical Americans, drive around in their Priui and whine about "outsourcing"... :eyes:

[Larkspur]

4. I was laid off in 2008 and my job went to an H-1B visa contractor from India

Though I was hired back by the end users of the environment I once managed because he is failing to provade adequate support for the environment.

FYI, my car is 9 years old, a Saturn L200.

[Romulox]

5. I am glad you are working. I don't understand how your comment relates to mine.

:shrug:

[Blue Owl]

6. Score another one for the cheap labor Repukes

endangering our safety so a CEO can have his third yacht.