B777-300
Maintenance Airframe; Maintenance Powerplant
Maintenance Lead Technician 15; Maintenance Technician 9
Communication Breakdown; Time Pressure
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural MEL / CDL; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Maintenance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft; Procedure; Company Policy
During troubleshooting of D5L passenger entry door flight lock not releasing allowing the door to be opened/closed.  The outbound Captain approached myself and the assigned Mechanic and asked several times for me (certifying engineer) to make a false logbook entry stating that the door operated normally and he would endorse the fact that he witnessed the correct operation.  Each time I refused to acknowledge his request.  The driver for his request was due to the number of passengers that would need to be offloaded due to an inoperative door.  Once it was deemed that the door would have to be deferred as 'inoperative' I was in the flight deck reviewing the (M) to be performed.At that time the Captain approached me again and said 'you know you're killing my company by doing this.  If you won't do what I had asked maybe we can find another company that will do it for us' My response was 'that's not up to me.  That's up to the company'After that there wasn't any further dialog regarding the serviceable condition of the door.
Technician reported outbound Captain was pressuring him to allegedly falsify a logbook entry to avoid off loading passengers due to a malfunctioning passenger door.