Between cancellations, delays and lost luggage, airline passengers aren't shy about sharing their 'travel nightmares'. But these misfortunes pale against the ordeal of the pilot who got sucked through the windscreen of BA5390.
The battered windscreen was found in a field near Chosley in Oxfordshire, along with the corner post and some of the bolts that had been securing it.
Working with a crew that was down two engineers, the manager opted to carry out the windscreen change himself. The bolt heads were too small to carry any markers identifying their part number, but after sifting through the trays to compare, he deduced it was an A211-7D. Back in the hangar with an assortment of the wrong bolts, he hurriedly set up a safety raiser to access the windscreen and finish the job.issues with his tools meant the maintenance manager had to reach across the nose of the plane with both handsWhen he got to the corner posts, he realised the longer bolts weren't quite right, so retrieved six of the old bolts he had earlier removed and used those.
that "a series of poor work practices, poor judgements and perceptual errors ... eroded the factors of safety" and led to BA5390's incident.
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