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Serious question, who thought putting a torque wrench in a seat pocket was a good idea?
I was doing a walkthrough at a regional airport in Des Moines last Thursday and found a snap-on torque wrench just sitting in a seat pocket on a CRJ. Some mechanic musta left it there after a cabin fix. That thing costs over $400 easy. I called the lead mechanic and he just shrugged like it happens all the time. Are we not teaching guys to triple check their tools before closing up a job? I've seen guys lose 10mm sockets in engine bays but a whole torque wrench is next level. How do we keep stuff like this from walking off or getting jammed in a seat track?
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gibson.sarah23h ago
Right, the 10mm socket thing is basically a rite of passage at this point, but a torque wrench is just choosing violence. The real problem is nobody wants to be the guy who holds up a departure because they're counting sockets for the third time, so stuff gets skipped. Airlines need to make it a two person sign off on high dollar tools or tie them to the mechanic's badge number so it gets flagged if it's not checked back in by the end of the shift. A torque wrench jamming a seat track could actually mess up the recline mechanism or worse, pop a cable, and that turns a quick find into a maintenance delay real fast.
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brooke76721h ago
Honestly I left a torque wrench in a galley cart once and the flight attendant found it mid-service, thought it was some kind of weird coffee press. She was not amused when I came scrambling back for it. Makes you wonder how many of these things end up as permanent airplane souvenirs before someone notices.
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