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A broken clock is right twice a day. the 787 fleet has been flying since, what, 2011, without a single hull-loss event. There was a youtube documentary I saw a
by gosub100 3y ago
A broken clock is right twice a day. the 787 fleet has been flying since, what, 2011, without a single hull-loss event.
There was a youtube documentary I saw at least 5 years ago (before the max disasters), who had a hit piece on boeing. They duped them into letting them film in the (North|South) Carolina plant (787 I believe), until they started asking pointed questions about safety and were asked to leave. They interviewed (off-site) one of the hourly manufacturing employees who attested to a bunch of careless practices. This was right about the time one of the Middle Eastern airlines said they only wanted 787's from Seattle, not the Carolina plant.
Even though their documentary proved prescient with the Max problem, I still don't think they were able to really connect anything. IIRC most of the documentary focused on mechanical issues, leaving pliers/plastic junk inside the airframe, whereas the root-cause turned out to be a systems engineering: MCAS and allowing cost-saving on one AOA sensor.
I would try to find it, but given all the recent press, I highly doubt I could. It may not have been Youtube, it could have been Al-Jazeera or Vice, etc. But if you pick the most popular flying vehicle and then start a doomer prophecy, of course there will eventually be something that makes it sound like you were right.
- nomilk 3y agoTo help find it, you could try searching youtube with this operator <search terms> before:2018-10-28
- amiga386 3y agoYou're referring to The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams published in 2014 by Al Jazeera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os This revealed a host of problems with the 787 Dreamliner, mainly that its battery packs catch fire (which is why it was grounded by the FAA from January to April 2013 to revise the battery design). This is the plane relevant to this latest whistleblower, but not the same plane as the 737 MAX, the one with the MCAS system and the door plugs missing bolts
- gosub100 3y agothank you for finding this. I disagree that this documentary revealed the battery pack fires. I remember seeing several of those stories in the news around 2011-12 because they were catching fire with passengers on board.
- paulpauper 3y agoYeah, it is easy to lose perspective of how safe air travel is today compared to even as recently as the '90s. See for example the 737 rudder jams, in which people died in multiple incidents during the '90s, yet for some reason it got much less media coverage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
- asmithmd1 3y agoBecause Boeing did not actively try to hide the design flaw they knew about as they did with the 737 Max