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...Mechanics servicing another Airbus spotted a fuel leak in a pylon connected < to an engine and recommended that it be repaired quickly because of the potential of fire. But a foreman, saying he had not seen the leak, overruled the employees, according to King, and the plane took off. Since the reported leak was not cited in the aircraft's maintenance record, mechanics at other airports were not alerted to double-check for the problem...
...departure gate, mechanics discovered that a loose bolt had punched a hole in a 727's fuel tank, causing a leak. King says the hole was plugged with an unauthorized, quick-hardening plastic sealer so that the plane could depart. A supervisor concealed the improper patch job by not recording it in the aircraft's logbook. The hole was not correctly repaired with a metal plate until later that week...
...airline of violating safety procedures. As King tells it, he notified the FAA of problems with Eastern's maintenance procedures, including the fact that some repairs were not recorded in the mechanics' logbooks. In one instance last May, says King, his supervisor did not want to record a fuel leak on an Airbus A-300 jet because the plane might have to be taken out of service. King secretly made a tape of the supervisor's words: "I have no chance to move this aircraft with this stinking item in the logbook . . . We don't want any showstoppers. We want...
...major leak cited by North occurred, by his account, on April 14, 1986, when two Senators went directly from a White House briefing to waiting microphones and told the nation that the President would discuss an impending U.S. attack on Libya that night. That, claimed North, gave Libya time to get its antiaircraft defenses set and led to the death of two American airmen shot down in their bomber...
Ironically, the Wall Street Journal benefited last week from an entirely different kind of leak. A top national security official told the paper that "Ollie was the biggest leaker in this Administration...