Some gestures are universally understood. When a person with first aid skills observes another person at a restaurant frantically clutching their throat, that is a universal sign that aid should be rendered to extricate the offending victual from the...

Having worked for a major airline, the tragic memory of one of our aircraft crashing into the side of a mountain remains vivid. I was the senior QA member of management at the facility where this aircraft had all its major maintenance performed. I wa...

It has been 22 years since the ATA Spec 106 was updated, and it is now at revision 2023.1. The proper and full name of this document is ATA Specification 106, Sources & Approved Parts Qualification Guidelines (herein ‘the spec’). In this article the ...

Me at home: ‘Honey, where’s the ketchup, did you finish it?’

Wife: ‘It’s in the fridge’

Me: ‘I looked, it’s not there’

The sound of pounding footsteps on a mission are heard marching to the fridge, whereupon an impressive and commanding opening sw...