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Going above and beyond to avoid a spanner in the works

Posted on January 24th, 2012 in Online Info

Accidents caused by Foreign Object Damage (FOD) costs the aviation industry an estimated $13 billion per year.

That’s $26 per flight in aircraft repairs in the United States as well as an estimated $312 in such additional indirect costs as flight delays, plane alterations and fuel inefficiencies.

Rather more significantly FOD also costs lives. A significant part of FOD is tool control or rather the lack of it. This is where tools used by maintenance engineers are unaccounted for and go missing in the aircraft due to a lack of a proper control system.

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