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FAA OIG: Air Carriers’ Outsourcing of Aircraft Maintenance

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Office of Inspector General, Federal Aviation Administration Air Carriers’ Outsourcing of Aircraft Maintenance, September 30, 2008. Project ID: AV-2008-090

  • “We found that while FAA has begun moving its safety oversight toward a risk–based system, it still relies too heavily on air carriers’ oversight procedures, which are not always sufficient. Specifically, we determined that FAA did not (1) have an adequate system for determining how much and where the most critical maintenance occurs, (2) have a specific policy governing when certificate management inspectors should visit repair stations performing substantial maintenance, (3) require inspectors to validate that repair stations have corrected deficiencies identified in air carrier audits, and (4) have adequate controls to ensure that inspectors document inspection findings in the national database and review related findings by other inspectors. As a result, FAA could not effectively target its inspection resources to those repair stations providing the highest volume of repairs, which caused deficiencies at repair stations to go undetected or reoccur and prevented inspectors from obtaining sufficient data to perform comprehensive risk assessments.”
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