"We need to cut down on our expenses! I suggest cutting executive salaries!"

…owever, during the 1990s the quality of maintenance at Alaska Airlines began to slip significantly. The airline extended numerous maintenance intervals, while simultaneously skimping on personnel and training. Many of Alaska’s maintenance workers received on the job training only without any formal curriculum. Key safety-related positions within the airline’s management structure went unfilled. Quality control fell by the wayside as workers performed tasks they didn’t understand, while under pressure to get planes back in service as quickly as possible. Technical logs fell through the cracks; critical forms were left incomplete; paperwork was outright falsified to show work done when it was not.
The Price of an Hour: The crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261
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Tom Ritchford
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Jul 12, 2021
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"We need to cut down on our expenses! I suggest cutting executive salaries!"
The Chairman smiled at the gales of laughter that followed. "Now I have your attention, I don't think anyone would notice if we cut our maintenance schedules by 80%. I mean, maintenance is only for losers that have accidents, and we have the best management team in the business!
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