Maintenance Airframe; Maintenance Powerplant
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Maintenance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural MEL / CDL; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR
General Maintenance Action
Manuals; Procedure; Aircraft; MEL
The NEF 52-40c; requires a Door Verification for the integrity and condition of the metallic speed tape application PRIOR TO EACH DEPARTURE. The grand majority of the AMT are not documenting this verification in logbook; because the (M) procedure instructions in this NEF are very confusing. The AML is classified as the major historical record of the aircraft since it contains records of pilot reported irregularities; 'ACTION TAKEN'. Every Action Taken must be documented in the AML as required per GPM section 05.01. To make this situation more complicated for the MOC-MCTs the MOCPM section 03.06.5 (A) 1. Requires that a Maintenance Hold will be applied to an aircraft when MOC has identified a task that must be accomplished prior to flight departure; The MCT is required to remove Maintenance Hold and release the aircraft when 'POSITIVE' confirmation that the task has been accomplished. the problem with this is that we cannot do a positive confirmation if the verification Action Taken required per the NEF was not documented in the logbook. This MEL verification procedure must be corrected to ensure traceability with the FAA/CASS DEPT; and the safety of our flight crew and passenger. In order to correct this issue a logbook entry signifying verification of the tape; must be required to be in compliances with the GPM section 05.01 and FAR 14 CFR 121.701.
Technician reported that an MEL/NEF item on an aircraft required a reinspection and log book entry before every departure and was not accomplished as required.