More, under the new set up for the cabin (new being 1998 when I retired) the purser, previous known as the number one flight attendant kept a maintenance log separate from the ships log book. This was to be presented to Maintenance when flight attendances met with maintenance once a year. Thinking this was just an oversight by people unfamiliar with FARs I contacted the Flight Attendant Supervisor and told her all maintenance complaints must be in the ships log book. She told me cabin complaints to be kept separate because it would empower the Flight Attendants. Again I went to Railsback and said you can't believe what the crazy FAs are doing. He said I know about the separate cabin logs, but marketing, in which the FAs fall under has more clout then Operations so my complaint has been ignored. I said "Do realize the FAA is going to go nuts when they find out all that's going on here?" He said "I know but nobody listens". So in direct conflict with procedures successfully followed for 30 years the school house developed new one in spite of being told these new practices were dangerous as the aircraft could not take the proposed g loading. The Simulators were biased to the new procedures and not how the aircraft reacted. Individual flight managers were sent out to the various bases to extol the new procedure after being told they would unlikely work. (Attendance to those meeting was required). And the FAs were told to keep a maintenance log sperate from the ships. They did not do that on my airplane because anyone doing so I would remove from the airplane. I was close to retirement and once was listened to as I had been a test pilot for the company and an engineer it was obvious my day was long passed. So I said hell with it, the company is not going to my plane down. Insanity reigned. After the crash the FAA was said to correct the afore mentioned practices. People should have gone to jail.


Why I didn't post before, I didn't know website like this existed. and since I probably won't live much longer maybe there are things that ought to be told.