Co-pilot error caused AA 587 crash

Chris W wrote:

Pete wrote:

Remember that it was an AA
DC-10 that lost an engine at ORD, and AA's maintenance practice
of removing engines with a forklift was the culprit, contrary to
McDonnell Douglas' advice.



That sounds interesting. How was it that removing them with the
forklift caused a problem, and how were they supposed to do it? Just
curious.


They were taking the pylon off with the engine, rather than removing the
engine from the pylon. Reattaching them involved impacts that the pylon
wasn't designed to cope with, and caused cracking.

AA weren't the only culprits, and were not the only ones fined for doing
that.

Sylvia.