Northwest, which has 40,000 employees worldwide, says it has 3,200 mechanics and maintenance technicians.
There were 16 support vehicles for the flight commander, normally a captain, 19 maintenance technicians, a medical technician and 44 security personnel.
That engine would fall off the airplane someday, he was convinced, if the maintenance technicians continued to neglect it.
Now he is a maintenance technician at half the $20 an hour he used to get.
A year ago, after training in computer and electronics repair, he was hired as a maintenance technician at a company that builds solar panels.
There a air controller and the maintenance technicians.
Starting in January 1942, the Navy began a very intense and difficult training program for electronic maintenance technicians.
Such workers typically include engineers, plant operators, and maintenance technicians.
Since that time the mission was expanded to include training of Combat Systems operators and maintenance technicians.
The 56th Fighter Wing also trains more than 700 maintenance technicians each year.