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It's not really about the door plug per se, it's about how Boeing's entire manufacturing, design and QA process could allow such an elementary mistake to escape
by avalys 3y ago
It's not really about the door plug per se, it's about how Boeing's entire manufacturing, design and QA process could allow such an elementary mistake to escape notice in the first place.
If they got this wrong, what other bolts didn't they tighten properly? This question is especially relevant since just a few weeks ago, Boeing issued an airworthiness directive about loose bolts in the rudder system.
In any reasonable aerospace organization, the discovery of a systematic problem with the rudder system assembly should have prompted an audit of other processes. Why did that audit not uncover this issue with the plug door?
Presumably, the answer is that Boeing's processes are so incomplete or and/or unreliable so that, even when being given a hint at what kind of a problem to look for, they can't find other instances of the same problem themselves.
It raises the question of what other systems on the plane have problems, and whether Boeing is even capable of confidently answering this question at this point, or whether we just have to wait and see what other parts start falling off.
- xtracto 3y agoThe crazy thing is that since the old Max fiasco several of us believed that the priorities of the Boeing company were completely wrong: they had decided to cut so many corners to increase profit to the point of negligence. Doing That, in an airplane is just crazy. Their manufacturing process is just kaput. And there is no force that will make them fix it until their planes start falling mid flight in pieces. I find it unfathomable that the FAA is basically sitting watching with their arms crossed. They should fine the heck out of Boeing and ground all their planes. But american protectionism is strong in this one.
- ac29 3y agoAll the 737 Max of the same type in the incident have been grounded. Grounding every plane Boeing has ever built would be quite an overreaction and would be disastrous for both passenger and cargo transportation.