When servicing and repairing aircraft, safety is paramount.

Highly skilled mechanical maintenance personnel are responsible for ensuring that aircraft are kept at the highest standards of reliability and safety.

All air transport undergo a preflight, servicing and departure check each time they land and this may often need to be done quickly and under pressure. They also need routine heavy maintenance checks at regular intervals, where many components are checked, serviced and overhauled.

The mechanical maintenance personnel are responsible for the safe operation of all aircraft mechanical systems and their related components, from jet engines to valves and fuel control pumps.