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Airline aircraft maintenance and ground support services meet at the connection points for ground service. Ground power must be applied to the aircraft, but responsibility for the aircraft receptacle falls to aircraft maintenance. This responsibility gap is not currently being addressed by the industry. For years any difficulty in applying power to an aircraft on the ground has been blamed solely on the ground power cable or generator. Any potential problems with the receptacles was largely ignored by ground service personnel, since they are not allowed to touch the aircraft. No one thought to look closely at the receptacle as a potential source of the inability to reliably apply power to the aircraft (in fact, routine maintenance A,B,C or D maintenance did not routinely check or change the receptacle).