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Massive Maintenance Safety Survey Under Way

Steve Scott

Monday, April 12th, 2004

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Tens of thousands of people involved in aviation maintenance are being asked to participate in a survey to determine why safety action programs for maintenance lag behind the proliferation of such programs for flight operations. "This is the first nationwide, one-shot maintenance safety survey," declared Dr. Manoj Patankar. He is the survey project director for the Department of Aviation Science at Missouri's St. Louis University. The project is funded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The survey was triggered by…

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