Spent 20 minutes digging a pitot tube cover out of a #2 engine inlet last Thursday

Cowling was already off and the cover must have blown in during the night shift, has anyone else found random stuff wedged in weird places on a preflight?

3 comments

3 Comments

ninas6723d ago

Gotta push back a little on that one... blaming night shift for every loose object turns into a bad habit. People make mistakes in the daytime too, you know? A granola bar in a static port sounds more like a snack break gone wrong than a sabotage job. Maintenance pulling weird stuff out of planes isn't new... that's just how it goes when you've got people crawling around tight spaces with pockets full of tools. Blaming a whole shift pattern because one cover blew in feels like looking for a reason to point fingers instead of checking your own process.

murphy.abby23d ago

Last Monday I found a half-eaten granola bar stuffed right into the static port on a Cessna 172. No idea how it got there, the port was clean when I did the walk-around the night before. Maintenance guys said they've pulled out rags, pens, even a small screwdriver from similar spots over the years. Makes you wonder what people are doing during night shifts when nobody's watching.

eric_knight723d ago

Guess I should check my own pockets more carefully before crawling around a plane, last week I found a half-eaten protein bar in my jacket that I'd forgotten about for three days. Started thinking it could've ended up way worse if my snack stash went missing at the wrong time. We've all got those moments where a granola bar or a pen falls out without noticing, just gotta laugh and hope it didn't land in something critical.