While airplane maintenance may not suggest glamour or intrigue, it provides jobs with starting salaries from $20,000 to $30,000 and the chance to move up the corporate ladder.

Facilities also include a full airplane maintenance and test hangar, with enough space to maintain the planes listed above.

High-quality airplane maintenance is expensive, but it and other safety measures should have the highest priority, far above dividends for airline-company stockholders.

He has spent 32 years at United, managing virtually every phase of operations, from airplane maintenance to in-flight food.

Among those exports are airplane parts and airplane maintenance diagnostic equipment, chemicals, paper packaging, electronics and computers.

And the aerospace industry has invented another controlled language to standardize the vocabulary of airplane maintenance.

And will we, again as taxpayers, have to pay for past cost-cutting measures that also cut corners in airplane maintenance and gave us deteriorated service and jammed-together seats?

To assuage these legitimate fears, the federal government should not only take over airport security, but should also better regulate the quality control of airplane maintenance.

"I was still bitten with the airplane bug; the company I work for specialises in airplane maintenance."

When asked whether terrorism or inadequate airplane maintenance posed a greater danger, 64 percent chose inadequate maintenance, while just 24 percent answered terrorism.