We simply don’t know that,yet. It could be a maintenance issue with whoever Southwest contracted. From someone fucking up closing the engine cover properly to the use of counterfeit parts (actually a larger issue than most people know - it has brought down airliners in the past).
It also could be an issue with actual Boeing certified spare parts or maintenance protocols- Something breakers earlier than expected,some spare parts are not as good as expected, the procedure is overly complicated,etc.
And of course it still could be an issue with actual Boeing works - something is built badly and now, after thousands of hours finally kicks the bucket - there have been cases where repairs brought down airliners decades after them being down (badly),the same is absolutely possible for engineering or assembly mishaps. If that is the case Boeing would be really fucked.
Anyways: There is a reason NTSB reports take months to years until they are finished. It is ridiculous how many people “know” what the reason for this was.
The plane is 7 years old. This isn’t a Boeing issue, this is a Southwest maintenance issue. Engine cowlings are regularly removed for maintenance. If a latch or latches aren’t properly secured or suffer from excessive wear then this is the outcome. I get the disdain for Boeing, but it should be based on issues of their negligence, not the negligence of their customers.
Arguably. Reading the comments on avhearld, the cowling latches to each other rather than to the frame and the latches themselves are very low and easy to miss. Airbus has tried to eliminate this potential oversight, whereas Boeing has not. So yes, potentially missed non walk around, but also a possible systematic design failure.
Airbus has only really been in competition with Boeing since the 2000s. Boeing’s merger with Mcdonell Douglas was in 1997 and that is when corporate culture shifted hard away from quality and to machinists, mechanics, engineers, everyone being told to think “how can I increase stock value today”.
Yes, but that’s still quite different from what was said. I was only pointing out the ridiculousness of the claim. A lot of Boeing’s current problems point back to that merger.
While frequency illusion is a real thing, so is the negligence exhibited by capitalists when they need to report growth quarter after quarter at any cost.
I’ll continue to be primed to see this shit because it’s only going to get worse and worse.
It’s a thing until it becomes so frequent that it’s just background noise, which is what happened with car crashes. I took specific action to make my next big trip safer, and from everything I could find the most effective way to do that was trading out the drive to the airport for a bus ride.
This is a maintenance issue with the airline, not a manufacturing issue. Big difference. A mechanic doing routine maintaine probably forgot to latch the cowling.
This is exactly it. I’m not making excuses for these companies messing up and being negligent I think it’s fine they get a spotlight on these things. However it’s just like the railroad derailings that were hot recently. After it was news we were seeing huge headlines of derailings like every single day and not anymore. I have family members as engineers in the railroad and I know that there’s derailings literally all the time but it was only reported so much because it was the new hot topic for a while. Again not defending the railroads in the cases where huge disasters were also caused due to negligence fuck them for that too
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