Aircraft on ground or AOG is a term in
aviation
Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot a ...
maintenance indicating that a problem is serious enough to prevent an
aircraft
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engine ...
from flying.
Boeing
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estimates that a 1-2 hour AOG situation will cost an airline $10-20,000, and possibly as high as $150,000.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Operations Center
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Aircraft maintenance