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Maintenance reported that work was accomplished on a passenger seat on a B787 by a non-certified engineer.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1410093 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201612 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B787-900 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Pax Seat |
| Person 1 | |
| Qualification | Maintenance Airframe Maintenance Powerplant |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural FAR |
Narrative:
I was reviewing emails and found an email from my boss indicating that a non-certificated engineer had been performing troubleshooting on a seat. Apparently the non-certificated engineer had not documented his maintenance activity in the aircraft maintenance record. The email requested me to document the work the engineer had performed. I believe this is a violation of the fars in that non-certificated persons should not be performing maintenance on aircraft. Furthermore I believe it is a violation of company policy for a person to perform maintenance without documenting the work themselves. (Had he documented it there would have been no need for somebody else to document the work for him.) additionally I could not find a training record for [him] indicating that he was qualified or trained to work on that aircraft type (787) or any other aircraft type for that matter.the company allows non-certificated engineers to perform hands-on troubleshooting. Don't allow non-certificated engineers to perform hands-on troubleshooting.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Maintenance reported that work was accomplished on a passenger seat on a B787 by a non-certified engineer.
Narrative: I was reviewing emails and found an email from my boss indicating that a non-certificated engineer had been performing troubleshooting on a seat. Apparently the non-certificated engineer had not documented his maintenance activity in the aircraft maintenance record. The email requested me to document the work the engineer had performed. I believe this is a violation of the FARs in that non-certificated persons should not be performing maintenance on aircraft. Furthermore I believe it is a violation of company policy for a person to perform maintenance without documenting the work themselves. (Had he documented it there would have been no need for somebody else to document the work for him.) Additionally I could not find a training record for [him] indicating that he was qualified or trained to work on that aircraft type (787) or any other aircraft type for that matter.The company allows non-certificated engineers to perform hands-on troubleshooting. Don't allow non-certificated engineers to perform hands-on troubleshooting.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.