American Accused of Shoddy Maintenance

From the Washington Post: Maintenance work by American Airlines on hundreds of jets was so sloppy that it posed a safety risk — a lapse that forced the carrier to ground many of its planes and strand hundreds of thousands of passengers last month, according to a report by federal regulators released yesterday.

“Left uncorrected, the workmanship errors would have increased the odds that [a plane] would have experienced arcing, smoke, or fire problems that have caused serious incidents and fatal accidents in the past,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in the report.
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