Rant: the engineer who blamed me for his own mistake

Last month I was doing a preflight check on a Cessna 172 at JFK. Found a loose spark plug wire. Simple fix. The lead engineer came over, looked at it, said I must have knocked it loose during my inspection. He told me to sign off on it like nothing happened. I refused. Later found out he forgot to torque it after the last engine run. Has anyone else dealt with engineers passing the buck like that?

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finley_wells662h ago

Had a buddy out at LaGuardia tell me about something similar with a fuel line clamp last year. Engineer tried to blame him for a loose clamp after a 737 engine swap, turned out the engineer skipped the final torque check on three of them. Took a supervisor digging through the logs to clear my friend's name. Its wild how some guys will risk a whole inspection record instead of owning up.