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Maintenance Error Emerging in Charlotte Crash

Steve Scott

Monday, February 3rd, 2003

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The crash of an Air Midwest twin-turboprop has pushed the cumulative toll of those killed from maintenance errors to more than 3,040 over the last three decades, raising new questions about maintenance oversight as well as concerns about passenger and baggage weights used in determining takeoff weight. The Jan. 8 crash of the Beech 1900D twin-turboprop during takeoff at Charlotte, N.C., already has spurred the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue an emergency airworthiness directive on elevator rigging and to…

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