>> The factory had a special jig to turn the whole thing upside-down
>> and give it a wonderful shake....
>OK, that is a bit extreme :).
>When I was in the airforce, all tools had to be kept in a store. You
>sign a tool (box) out and it is inspected on return. All tools must be
>signed back before any planes go out the hanger.
>If a tool is missing, all planes are grounded until that tool is found.

A colleague of mine used to work on an airforce base in a country which
shall rename nameless, and related the experience of an inexperienced person
going to do a cockpit pressure test using a mercury manometer in a fighter
aircraft.

Person climbs into cockpit, is handed manometer and closes cockpit. I am not
sure if exactly who was at fault, but the cockpit pressure was supposed to
be increased, causing mercury to go down manometer tube and reading taken.
On this occasion cockpit pressure was decreased, causing mercury to go up
tube, and pop out of top, disappearing down into the innards of the aircraft
mainframe. Result was termination of flying hours for airframe.

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