Maintenance Airframe; Maintenance Powerplant
Time Pressure
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Human Factors; Manuals
I was assigned to work task by a crew chief. The task was for #3 brake is worn I pulled the paperwork left the ready room and arrived to the Aircraft (AC) to find the jet bridge pulled and the ground crew pushing off the gate. I'm just concerned about on time departures only aircraft maintenance is just an afterthought. I returned to the crew chief and informed him but he mentions nothing in the log book don't worry this is a very common. If you compared Task (Assignments to an Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT)) numbers to the AC you would find a difference between task and log book items generated by the task that the AMT was given.Example # 1: You get a gate call for cargo damage the Flight crew has no idea it was called in from another department the AMT goes out looks maybe tapes it up and never documents it because the crew never mentioned it and time restraints.Example #2 : AMT gets a gate call reading light out nothing in the book gets a part out of free stock replaces it and lets it go at that because he might take a delay writing it up.Example # 3: AMT is working a Flight orders parts for the AC changes them but since the crew never put it in the book it's good to go.If you also compared parts ordered for an AC and items written up you will find disparity also. With free stock there is a problem with accountability I have no way of knowing how many times something has been changed as in example # 2 the light bulb how many times was it changed? And if there is an underlying problem with the item like a bad socket short in the wiring behind a wall etc. Maybe tie the task to a logbook and generate a record would be a good idea.
Due to concerns and pressure for 'ON TIME' departures many minor maintenance items were not being worked or in many cases worked but not recorded.