The Importance of End Play Checks in Business

A few years after the aircraft was introduced, McDonald Douglas realized that that is, you know, that part is so critical. And it was wearing faster than they had expected. They introduced a new check called an end play check. That was meant to be done every, every 2,000 flight hours. It just measures them out of play, which is a direct kind of, it measures the wear on the thread. But when the thread where it got to a certain point, you had to replace the part, right? Yeah, completely.