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Really? You may be right, but in decades of flying AA, I cannot recall ever noticing that my row of seats was loose, nor have I ever seen other passengers complain (and you'd think they'd notice if they sat down and their row of seats was loose). I've seen maintenance come on board for various things, but never to tighten up a row of loose seats. Perhaps maintenance gets to that loose row prior to boarding, every time. If it's really as common as you say, you'd think there would be more complaints and that the media would have been all over it during the last few decades.
In an interview with the Star-Telegram on Thursday, American CEO Tom Horton said the seat problem is unique to American because it involves a group of planes whose interiors had not been updated.
"There are issues that affect the entire industry. There are issues that affect an individual airlines because of the way something is configured," Horton said. "Some of our 757s have completely new interiors. These were the 48 that had not gone through that and as a consequence the seat configuration was unique to those airplanes and unique to American."
why are people blaming TIMCO when according to Horton, "these were the 48 that had not gone through" seat mods??
Because even if there are attempts to say these are industry issues, I am not aware of any other airlines at least in recent memory that have had multiple rows of seats coming loose in flight.
Nope. They've just had wheels literally come off the airplane, tools left in fuel tanks or behind wall panels, electrical wiring reversed, and pitch control cables inappropriately rigged...
I'll take a loose seat over an incorrectly wired engine control.
there is NO acceptable excuse for any human controllable mistakes... no one should justify ANY controllable errors.Nope. They've just had wheels literally come off the airplane, tools left in fuel tanks or behind wall panels, electrical wiring reversed, and pitch control cables inappropriately rigged...
I'll take a loose seat over an incorrectly wired engine control.
Quality control does not happen after the job WT, final inspection does. There is a huge difference between the two.so, can we summarize this whole incident (or set of them) as ...
...without the proper QC after the job.