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Situational · Ethical Dilemma

You run maintenance operations at a station. An aircraft has an open MEL deferral that expires tomorrow, and the fix needs a part arriving tonight — probably. Ops control wants the aircraft flying its full schedule today, which is legal, but your lead technician tells you the intermittent fault has become more frequent than the deferral assumed. What's your call?

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My call rests on one principle: the MEL makes the deferral legal, but the safety case behind it assumed the fault behaved a certain way — and my technician is telling me that assumption no longer holds.…

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