The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed it is investigating why doomed UPS Flight 2976 received maintenance work in San Antonio for six weeks before it crashed after taking off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Nov. 4.
“We have actually started to pull those records down,” NTSB member Todd Inman said during the independent federal organization’s second media briefing on Nov. 6.
“We have a specific group that has experts in not only maintenance but repair [and] job cards and all of the requirements of that. We are currently downloading that information and going back,” Inman said. “We will actually, as part of the investigative process, we will go back even further from that to get additional pertinent details about certain inspections and checks based on the age of the aircraft.”…