Kallita
The place is one of the most dangerous places to work. The pilot's are *****s who will rationalize why it's OK to fly broken aircraft from point A to point B to point C until someone deceides it OK to right the airplane up.
Some examples:
B747 engine falls off aircraft during climbout over Chicago.
DC8 # 1 engine falls off at 35,000 feet during cruise over Denver.
DC8 crashes in Gitmo (Cuba) because the entire crew had been up nearly 23.5 hours.
Middle of winter -Standby attitude indicator fails in Texas, FE says will get it fixed in Toledo, Ohio. Weather is 900 feet overcast / 2.5 miles in light snow. Copilot walks off the airplane. Flight cancelled 24 hours until part arrives following morning. Captain was willing to take aircraft, tried to convince copilot to get back on aircraft.
Military
Middle of winter - flight departs Ypsilanti to Dover to Germany to Turkey - Captain arrives with his VFR Garmon GPS unit, sets up the antennas on captain/copilot windows mounts receiver on windscreen and proceeds to fly the north atlantic tracks relying on a VFR GPS unit, while the INS'S drift off into la-la land.
September 3, 1993 FAA inspector gave a route check to a Kallita crew, asked the Captain what he thought of the condition of the aircraft. The captain stated "Good aircraft, No problems". At this point the inspector produced a list of fourteen items that the crew chose to ignore.
Examples where - Altitude alert no aural warning, Wet compass light inop, RMI 15~20 difference between the Captain's and FO's, FO's ADI inop-precesses, Light inop on the Captain's horizon and RMI. Needles to say the Capt lost his certificate. The fed was not from Detroit.
This is the bull**** you will deal with on an everyday basis. Connie will fire any pilot who starts writing-up and / or parking airplanes.
Be careful when working with - DC Sanderlin, Al Soskin, Harvey Sigman, George Grindrod and Leo Crum.
THERE WAS AN ARTICLE IN THE ANN HARBOR NEWS DATED AUGUST 8, 1993 CITING 73 INCIDENTS OVER 10 YEARS IN WHICH COUNTLESS PILOTS WERE KILLED AND AIRCRAFT DESTROYED. WORKING FOR KALITTA. IT WILL RAISE THE HAIR ON YOUR BACK.
I failed to mention the Detroit FSDO is on the take and will do nothing, short of the FBI and Justice Department showing up.