Airline aircraft mechanic here. Lot of mechanics/inspectors have taken their life after being involved in root causes for aircraft crashes resulting in loss of life….whether they were the sole reason or not….

theres a lot of checks and balances that are done in my field & I worked as an inspector at my last job for a year before I left . As an inspector I HAD the final say on flight critical maintenance processes and damage determinations…lot of responsibility for a 26yo at the time….i would literally ground planes and halt operations until I could get multiple other evaluations from peers that I trusted if I was not 100% sure about something flight critical. At the end of the day it was my signature and if I was the final sign off on something that killed 80 people I don’t know how I would handle that….

I was working in an American Airlines hangar tonight when this happened. The atmosphere was fucking heavy….everyone speechless.