Who's job is it, at an airport, to notice a crack in the windshield?

[Fengzi]

When there's 200 lives at stake I would certainly hope they go over the plane pretty godamn carefully.

Think about it, a plane lands and takes off again in what, 60-90 minutes? Do you know how many people it would take to go over every square inch of the plane in that much time? It would look like a bunch of ants swarming over a piece of food that fell on the ground. I'm sure there is a list of things they check out every time and other things they check out at various intervals. Something like a crack in the windsheild must be pretty rare so they may get the full going over once every 500hrs of flying time or something like that. Just hope your not on the plane on the 499th hr

Fengzi Reviewed by Fengzi on 04-03-2006. Who's job is it, at an airport, to notice a crack in the windshield? Is it the pilot's? They just landed a plane because the pilot noticed the crack. Is it a failure of the groundcrew? Should they have noticed the crack? Rating: 5