Originally Posted by
Waterhorse
Seat belts clip onto a mounting. The mounting is just about bomb proof and that the clip simply came loose - it happens occasionally. I suspect an engineer would have taken 30 seconds to remedy this fault. Let's not get all up ourselves over something that I have fixed many times without recourse to an engineer. This is nothing to do with engineering standards or cost cutting. I used to remove the darned things to make a row in the back of Y comfortable then just replace them before landing as a positioning pilot many years ago. Relax people the issue here is compo avios not engineering.
This certainly takes the cake !
First a major SAFETY failure then a "so what" from a pax who is good at DIY. If it was so easy why couldn't the CC fix it ? If I knew how I would fix it AFTER a waiver from CSD of absolving me of any mishaps.
OP good of you to move to the jump seat when there were turbulence warnings and landing. What would happen in the case of a totaly unexpected turbulence or worse ?
I would write to BA, copy to CAA and ask to see the records of maintenance
before and after.
By all means ask for service recovery and do not settle for a token number of avios.