Training and Workforce
PAMA: FAA should require maintenance training
The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) is strongly urging the FAA to require all air carrier, commuter and on-demand operators to have an

The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) is strongly urging the FAA to require all air carrier, commuter and on-demand operators to have and implement FAA-approved mechanical training programs.

In a letter to FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, PAMA president Brian Finnegan noted that “a number of fatal commercial aviation accidents have occurred over the past several years in which maintenance issues have played contributory, if not causal, roles. Regrettably, poor, incomplete or infrequent maintenance training was often at the heart of those maintenance issues,” Finnegan wrote.

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