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### MR
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### MR. LOMAZOW: Well, let me just

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### JUDGE GOODWlN: Are we at the 12 

### point that

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### MR. LOMAZOW: Uh-huh, yes. 14 JUDGE GOODWIN: Mr. Emerson, you 15 were presenting your case in chief. So have 16 you concluded your case in chief? 17 

### MR. EMERSON: Yes, Your Honor. 18 JUDGE GOODWIN: Now, before we get 19 further, I'm going to do this for each of you. 20 

### For the FAA I have admitted 21 

### Exhibits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I do not have 6 22 

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### dated February 25, '08. 2 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Your Honor, I move 3 

### to what has been marked as C-6 for 4 identification I move that into evidence as 5 C-6. 6 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Mr. Emerson? 7 

### MR. EMERSON: No objection. 8 

### JUDGE GOODWIN : Okay. C-6 for 9 identification is received into evidence as 10 Complainant 6. I'm having to get used to the 11 

### months being two digits now, not one digit. 12 (EXHIBIT NO. C-6 WAS RECEIVED.) 13 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: I have with 14 respect to Exhibit 7 admitted is page 1 of 18, 15 which is the aircraft log

-- well, the easiest 16 way to do it, it starts at 15,965 cycles ends 17 at 15,965 cycles; page 10 which is aircraft 18 log, again this one starts at 15,965 cycles, 19 ends at 15,971 cycles; and finally page 17 of 20 18 also an aircraft log, which starts at 21 15,971 and ends at 15,972. None of the other 22 

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### MR. LOMAZOW: Your Honor, I think 2

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### JUDGE GOODWIN: I'm not there yet . 4 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Oh, sorry. 5 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Mr. Emerson, you 6 need to work on his mathematics. 7 

### Exhibit 8 I have marked for 8 

### identification has not been proffered. 9 Exhibit 9 is marked for identification, has 10 not been offered. Exhibit 10 we discussed it 11 hasn't been offered. Exhibit 11 I will take 12 judicial notice of. 13 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Your Honor, what has 14 previously been marked as C-10 for purposes of 15 identification the complaint moves into 16 evidence as C-10. 17 

### MR. EMERSON: No objection. 18 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Complainant's 10 19 for identification is received in evidence as 20 complainant's 10. 21 (EXHIBIT NO. C-10 WAS RECEIVED.) 22 JUDGE GOODWIN: Mr. Emerson, with
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### respect to the Respondent I have Respondent's 2 1 which is the aircraft maintenance log dated 3 5/30/10 consisting of eight pages has been 4 marked for identification but not received. 5 The MEL dated 6/29/2011 6 

### MR. EMERSON: Your Honor, before 7 we move on to the next exhibit, SkyWest offers 8 Exhibit R-1 into evidence. 9 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Counsel? 10 MR. LOMAZOW: No objection. 11 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Respondent's 1 for 12 identification is received into evidence as 13 Respondent's 1. 14 The MEL dated 6/29/2011 had been 15 offered, there had been an objection, and I 16 reserved on that. I don't remember why. The 17 resume which is Exhibit Respondent's 3 for 18 identificationhas been received into evidence 19 as Respondent's 3. 20 Respondent's 4 

### which is the 21 Standard Practice 8600 dated 10/16/2009 has 22 been identified but not offered.
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### MR. EMERSON: SkyWest offers 2 Exhibit 4 into evidence. 3 

### MR. LOMAZOW: No objection. 4 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Respondent' s 4 for 5 identification is received into evidence as 6 Respondent's 4. 7 (EXHIBIT NO. R-4 WAS RECEIVED.) 8 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: And Respondent's 5 9 which is Standard Practice 7555 dated 10 5/12/2010 has been marked for identification 11 but not received
. 12 MR. EMERSON: SkyWest offers R-5. 13 

### MR. LOMAZOW: No objection. 14 JUDGE GOODWIN: Okay. 15 (EXHIBIT NO. R-5 WAS RECEIVED.) 16 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: And I would note 17 on page 1 of Exhibit 1 there's some 18 highlighting which the Court will ignore, 19 specifically the discrepancy is highlighted 20 and the corrective action is highlighted in 21 Discrepancy 1. 22 The Court will ignore anything
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### that's and I bring that up because on 2 Exhibit 2 a paragraph in the operation's 3 

### procedure, the second sentence in that 4 paragraph which begins, "Advance the thrust 5 levers" ending in "flight crew will," that's 6 been circled in ink, and the Court will ignore 7 that. 8 And on Exhibit 4 there's several 9 ballpoint markings which will be ignored. And 10 on Exhibit 5 at 169 there's some bracketing 11 around 169 and AFM is circled, and the Court 12 will ignore that. 13 

### Refresh my memory on why we 14 reserved as to the MEL. 15 

### MR
. LOMAZOW: Your Honor, I'm 16 going to withdraw that objection and I will 17 not object. 18 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: All right. So 

### 19 yesterday the Respondent moved Respondent's 2 20 for identification into evidence. Objection 21 having been withdrawn, Respondent's 2 for 22 identification will be received in evidence as
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### Respondent's 2. 2 

### (EXHIBIT NO. R-2 WAS RECEIVED.) 3 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Now, does that 4 conclude the Respondent's case in chief? 5 

### MR. EMERSON: It does, Your Honor. 6 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: The FAA wish to 7 

### recall any witnesses? 8 

### MR
. LOMAZOW : Yes, Your Honor. 9 The FAA would like to recall Inspector 10 

### Gehring. 11 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Okay. Mr. 12 

### Gehring, I'm going to remind you that you're 13 still under oath. 14 

### THE WITNESS: Yes, sir. 15 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Counsel. 16 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Your Honor, should I 17 stand? Should I sit? 18 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: That's fine, as 19 long as the court reporter can pick you up. 20 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Okay. 21 

### WENDELL "SKEETER" GEHRING, 22 

### called as a witness, being previously duly
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### sworn, was examined and testified as 2 follows: 3 DIRECT EXAMINATION 4 

### BY MR. LOMAZOW: 5 Q 

### Inspector Gehring, during your 6 

### investigation did anyone from in your 7 

### communications with SkyWest, did anyone tell 8 you that they used anything other than the QRH 9 

### to maintenance this discrepancy? 10 A 

### No, sir. 11 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: I would sit in 12 

### such a manner that she can hear you. As they 13 

### used to say, Counsel doesn't care whether he 14 

### can hear you. What he cares is if the court 15 

### reporter can hear you. 16 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Absolutely. 17 

### THE WITNESS: Yes, Your Honor. 18 Q 

### (By MR. LOMAZOW) All right. 19 Inspector Gehring, please turn to what is 20 

### marked as C-8 for identification. Do you 21 

### recognize this document? 22 A 

### Yes, sir. This is the letter of
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1 investigation that was sent to SkyWest when I 2 started the investigation. 3 Q Who sent this letter to SkyWest? 4 A I did. 5 Q Who drafted this letter? 6 A I did. 7 MR. LOMAZOW: Okay. Your Honor, I 8 offer what's been marked as C-8 for purposes 9 of identification into evidence as C-8. 10 MR. EMERSON: No objection. 11 Q (By MR. LOMAZOW) Please turn to 12 what is marked as C-9 for identification. 13 JUDGE GOODWIN: Complainant's 8 14 for identification is received into evidence 15 as Complainant's 8. 16 (EXHIBIT NO. C-8 WAS RECEIVED.) 17 Q (By MR. LOMAZOW) Do you recognize 18 this document? 19 A Yes, I do. 20 Q And what is this document? 21 A This is the response to the letter 22 of investigation that I sent from SkyWest
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### Okay. And who responded? 2 A 

### Gary Goodman. 3 Q 

### And what is his title? 4 A 

### He's the director of quality for 5 SkyWest. 6 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Your Honor, I move 7 

### what is marked as C-9 for purposes of 8 

### identification into evidence as C9. 9 

### MR. EMERSON: No objection. 10 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Complainant's 9 11 

### for identification is received into evidence 12 

### as Complainant's 9. 13 

### (EXHIBIT NO. C-9 WAS RECEIVED.) 14 Q 

### (By MR. LOMAZOW) Inspector 15 Gehring, in the response did SkyWest indicate 16 if they used any other manual other than the 17 QRH? 18 A 

### No, sir. 19 Q 

### Please give the Court a brief 20 summary of this response. 21 

### MR
. EMERSON: Objection. The 22 

### document speaks for itself.
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### JUDGE GOODWIN: Sustained. 2 Q 

### (By MR. LOMAZOW) Based on your 3 opinion was any significant corrective action 4 

### taken in this response by SkyWest? 5 A 

### No, sir. 6 Q 

### Inspector Gehring, I'm going to 7 

### show you Respondent's

-- what has been entered 8 

### as Respondent's No. 4 

### which is Standard 9 

### Practice 8600. Please read along with me in 10 No. 2 . 

### "Once the QRH procedure, if 11 

### applicable, is accomplished, the PIC refers to 12 

### the MEL, CDL, NEF to make the following 13 decision." Now, what does that mean? 14 A 

### That during a flight that the 15 flight crew will refer to those based on the 16 information that the airplane has told them, 17 sir. 18 Q 

### Okay. Does that

-- the use of the 19 word "QRH" there, does that mean it' s proper 20 for maintenance? 21 A 

### No, sir. This is something that 22 

### the pilot in command

-- PIC stands for pilot
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### in command. 2 Q 

### Okay. 3 A 

### And the pilot in command uses the 4 QRH. That is one of the pilot's manuals. 5 Q 

### Based on -- 6 A 

### So the statement is correct. 7 Q 

### Based on this language, could the 8 

### SkyWest maintenance worker here, Joshua 9 Harmon, have used this to maintenance this 10 discrepancy? 11 A 

### No, sir. 12 Q 

### Based on in your opinion, based 13 on SkyWest's General Maintenance Manual, can 14 a mechanic use a manual outside of the General 15 Maintenance Manual under certain situations? 16 

### MR. EMERSON: Objection. Asked 17 and answered. 18 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: The Court's 19 

### judgment call. I'll overrule it at this 20 point. 21 Q 

### (By MR. LOMAZOW) Please answer. 22 A 

### I can answer?
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### Yeah. If you'd like me to repeat 2 the question, I can repeat it. 3 A 

### Yeah, repeat the question. I got 4 lost in there, sir. 5 Q 

### Sure. Can a maintenance

-- can a 6 SkyWest maintenance worker use a manual 7 outside of their General Maintenance Manual 8 under certain situations? 9 A 

### No, sir. 10 Q 

### Okay. Inspector Gehring, please 11 turn to in the witness copy what is marked as 12 C3, which has been entered into evidence as 13 C3, which is the Fault Isolation Manual. In 14 order

-- would you agree with the statement 15 that in order to correct the discrepancy at 16 issue here the Fault Isolation Manual would 17 lead you in a circle? 18 A 

### No, sir. 19 Q 

### And why not? 20 A 

### The Fault Isolation Manual 21 provides the logic to separate out the 22 individual components of the system that would
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### set the left or right pack high pressure 2 messages for either side. 3 Q 

### Inspector Gehring, is there any 4 difference between line maintenance and heavy 5 maintenance in regards to following the 6 

### General Maintenance Manual? 7 A 

### No, sir. The manuals for the 8 aircraft are the manuals for the aircraft 9 

### whether you work the line or whether you work 10 heavy maintenance or if you're a contractor 11 working maintenance. You have to follow the 12 manual. It don't make a difference. 13 

### MR. LOMAZOW: No further questions 14 for this witness. 15 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Cross? 16 

### CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. EMERSON: 17 Q 

### Mr. Gehring, would you turn back 18 to Exhibit R-4, please? 19 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: I'm sorry. You 20 said R-4? 21 MR. EMERSON: R-4. I'm subdued 22 this morning, Your Honor.
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### 1 Does that conclude all the 2 evidence and testimony in this case? 3 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Yes. 4 

### MR. EMERSON: All done. 5 

### MR. LOMAZOW: All done. 6 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: Okay. As I 7 

### indicated yesterday I know this is 8 repetitious

-- what I'm going to ask you to do 9 is once you get the transcript if you'll call 10 

### Mr. Emerson. You two work out a briefing 11 schedule. I don't have any immediate plans to 12 retire. Five years would be a little long, I 13 think. But seriously work something out that 14 works for you given that you both have trial 15 schedules and you both have

-- you have other 16 cases going on and the holidays are coming up. 17 If you run into a problem, let Mr. 18 Liebowitz know as it will bump it out. Once 19 you work out a schedule, shoot me an order. 20 

### I'll sign it and issue it. We'll go from 21 there. And it will

-- my educated guess it 22 will be every bit of three weeks before you
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### see the transcript. 2 

### MR. LOMAZOW: Okay. 3 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: And it has to do 4 with the mechanics. The transcript goes to 5 headquarters and it takes a while for them to 6 

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### MR. LOMAZOW: Yes, Your Honor. 8 

### JUDGE GOODWIN: All right. So 

### 9 hearing nothing further, we'll go off the 10 record. 11 (End of proceedings at 9:14a.m.) 12 13 

### 14 15 16 17 18 

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In the matter of: Skywest Airlines

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Date: 10-02-12
Place: Salt Lake City, UT

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The above-entitled matter came on for hearing, pursuant to notice, at 1:00 p.m.

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• 244 APPEARANCES FOR THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: KYLE LOMAZOW, ESQ OFFICE OF REGIONAL COUNSEL 1601 Lind Avenue Southwest Renton, Washington 98057-3356 425.227.1847 kyle.lomazow®faa.gov

FOR SKYWEST AIRLINES: TODD C. EMERSON, ESQ. SKYWEST AIRLINES GENERAL COUNSEL 444 South River Road St. George, Utah 84790 435.634.3530 temerson®skywest.com

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1 P R 0 C E E D I N G S 2 JUDGE GOODWIN: Counsel, yesterday 3 I'm not sure that we reached the conclusion of 4 the case, but I wanted to give you both the 5 opportunity to pick up where we left off 6 yesterday. Any witnesses? 7 MR. EMERSON: Before you get into 8 this case, Your Honor, there's, you know, 9 additional SkyWest cases coming up today. 10 JUDGE GOODWIN: Right. 11 MR. LOMAZOW : Mr. Dworkin and 12 SkyWest are prepared to proceed at 10:00 this 13 morning. 14 JUDGE GOODWIN: That works. 15 MR. EMERSON: Does that work? 16 JUDGE GOODWIN: Yeah. 17 Okay. Now, in this case I have

-- 18 MR. EMERSON: We've also made the 19 copies of the exhibits

-- 20 JUDGE GOODWIN: Right. 21 MR. EMERSON: and provided them 22 to counsel and to you, Your Honor.
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