{"id":117345,"date":"2021-10-22T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=117345"},"modified":"2021-10-22T22:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T22:30:47","slug":"faa-american-maintenance-issues-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2021\/10\/faa-american-maintenance-issues-audit.html","title":{"rendered":"FAA lacks effective oversight of American Airlines maintenance issues -audit."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lacks effective oversight controls to ensure that American Airlines<\/a>\u2019 corrective actions for maintenance issues address root causes, a government watchdog report said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Transportation Department Inspector General\u2019s office said in 171 of 185 of cases sampled, FAA inspectors accepted root cause analyses by American Airlines \u201cthat did not identify the true root cause of the problem\u201d and the agency \u201cclosed compliance actions before the air carrier implemented its corrective actions\u201d, Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong> LEVEL and American Airlines resume codeshare flights.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAA said it \u201cagrees with many of the recommendations in the report and is taking steps to address them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Airlines said it welcomed the report. \u201cWe plan to work with the FAA to ensure we take positive action and continuously refine and improve our safety controls,\u201d an airline spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report found that in one instance American \u201cflew an aircraft with an inoperable emergency evacuation slide for 877 days before reporting the non-compliance to FAA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong> American Airlines and GOL sign exclusive codeshare agreement.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American said it reported the slide issue as soon as it was discovered as part of its maintenance program that requires intentional slide deployments. It added it \u201cthen worked with the vendor to develop an audit system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report said that if American Airlines had categorized the slide as a more serious issue it would have prompted different corrective actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAA did not evaluate whether American\u2019s \u201crisk ratings adequately captured the level of risk for these findings,\u201d the report found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report said \u201cineffective root cause analysis and the associated corrective actions may have contributed to a number of repetitive non-compliances\u201d issues at American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without verifying corrective actions, \u201cFAA cannot reasonably ensure that American Airlines is sufficiently identifying root causes and mitigating future maintenance non-compliances,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAA, it added, \u201ccould not verify whether the 73% of findings that American Airlines rated as \u2018low\u2019 or \u2018very low\u2019 were indeed low risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also said FAA inspectors were not adequately trained on root cause analysis or how to review airline risk assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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