Originally Posted by
ftwaynepvtpilot
After the maintenance crew left the first time, they got a call from dispatch to ask if they put the O-Ring back in the engine. Oops...that's what that extra part was. Apparantly, they had missed an important part to re-assembling the engine, and had to go out and try again... That didn't give me a lot of confidence in Northwest's maintenance!!!
Okay I'm done...
If this happened in PHL, the work was probably done by a 3rd party vendor. That could have happened to any plane at PHL that was operated by an airline w/o its own mechanics at PHL.
The call from "dispatch" likely came from NW's senior mechanics back home reviewing the work & asking questions.
The system worked as it is supposed to work.
That still leaves you batting 1.000 (had to invert it, didn't like the looks of 0.000), not good ..... At its worst, my track record of leaving on my originally scheduled Comair flight never dropped below 0.375.