In Reply to: Staff get it from both sides posted by Trevor_H on Sunday, 31. December 2006 at 18:08 Bali Time:
For years a friend worked for an airline which is no longer around as an aircraft maintenance engineer (avionics). He would describe how aircraft would be ok'd for flight by the powers to be which they knew wasn't ok. I e there might be some electrical fault. Work was ok'd because of the extreme pressure everyone was working under to get aircraft off the ground.
He described how it was rare for anyone working in maintainenance for this particular company to actually reach retirement age as most died from job stress related problems way before retirement.