God these airline companies need a overhaul. stop stuffing the flights and make them a few inches more roomy. stop cutting corners. offer good refund policies and shit. they are such bastards
Boeing has had issues for a while. I work in commercial aviation certification and all the senior engineers I work with are ex-boeing guys who took the early retirement plan some years ago when it was offered. According to them anyone who knew anything left and the competition from Airbus has forced them to attempt to speed up the certification process. The FAA gets final approval over new airplane designs but more of the engineering review and approval comes from a private ODA, which Boeing has their own. You have a company despite for sales who can “approve” their own designs. There is definitely corporate pressure forcing approvals to go faster.
There’s a lot of crapping on Boeing here, and don’t get me wrong, they’ve earned the criticism. However, I’d be very surprised if this incident wasn’t actually traced back to maintenance issues with the airline.
If course, that was also my thought when i first heard about the plug door, and it lasted up until I learned the plane was so new it likely hadn’t even been through it’s first A check.
I know that Boeing’s on everyone’s shit list these days, but the company doesn’t even make aviation tires. Unless a failure in one of Boeing’s systems caused tire damage this is probably due to poor maintenance by the airline, or a defective tire manufactured by Goodyear, Michelin, Bridgestone or Dunlop.
I was about to ask. We’ll have to wait for information on which component failed here.
If all Boeing planes are questionable, it’s reasonable to ask what the US government will do about it. They’re the definition of too big to fail, but at the same times lives are very directly in the balance.
The core issue causing the quality control issues with Boeing is actually that they are outsourcing more and more of the design and manufacturing of their planes, and then squeezing their contractors, knowing that their contractors don’t have any other options, aerospace is both regional and consolidated. Boeing will gladly point out whenever there is a failure that it is the fault of the contractor that designed the relevant part or system, but it’s generally not that the contractor was incompetent, but rather that they were given an unreasonably tight budget and forced to deliver something.
Lol what? The merger with the McDonnell Douglas Corporation (defense contractor) and continued focus on cheaping out on R&D costs, especially safety related tests, while maximizing investor payouts has way more to do with the quality of their planes than where they’re manufactured.
Why is everyone so obsessed with this? Should not be a surprise: You all know Boeing was named after the sound of falling parts hitting the ground, right?
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