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The night a loose cannon plug on a King Air at Concord taught me to slow down
I used to be the guy who could knock out a squawk sheet fast, and I was proud of it. About four months ago I was working a King Air 200 out of Concord, North Carolina, one of those jobs that should have taken an hour, a landing gear position light that wouldn't quit. I rushed the connector check, gave it a quick tug, called it good, and signed it off. Two days later the pilot radioed in that the gear indication flickered on final into Greensboro, and I had to own that one with my boss standing right there. When I pulled that cannon plug apart the second time, three of the pins had walked back in the shell because the grommet wasn't seated right, and I had felt that looseness the first time and ignored it. Now I spend the extra 10 minutes with a light and a pick, checking every pin on anything I touch, even when the book says a visual is enough. The old timers always say the plane will tell you what it wants, and I guess I finally listened. Does anyone else have a connector or harness story that stuck with them like this one stuck with me?
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sarahpatel5d ago
Does slowing down for every visual check actually make sense when the book says otherwise?
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