Eine indische Airline hat beim US-Flugzeughersteller Boeing eine Großbestellung für 737-Max-Maschinen aufgegeben - trotz der Beinahe-Katastrophe. Um den Typen Max 9 handelt es sich allerdings nicht.
"Well, some of them are built so that the plug door doesn’t fall off at all."
"Wasn’t this built so that the plug door wouldn’t fall off?"
"Well, obviously not."
Aha, I see finally the penny has dropped in #America.... the FAA is now 'considering' halting the practice where #Boeing engineers/staff certify their own planes as airworthy.
That they could still do so after the two previous #737max crashes, tells you something about institutional capture in the #aviation industry.
Can't see Boeing coming back from this quickly....
Undocumented killer feature:
Weirdly incomplete Boeing 737 MAX manuals
Inspired by recent news about a decompression incident, I wrote about missing information in airplane manuals and their consequences. This post owes a lot to two discussions on Mastodon, which I've cited in the post.
The only thing I am taking away from the Boeing 737 MAX9 "plug door incident" is that giant corporations will cut corners and cut the pay to the bolt turners to make their managers' numbers look good even in serious safety situations.
Profit over Safety.
This should be a lesson to any business owner to not skimp on their employees so much that it becomes an issue.
I have NEVER had a job where a penny pinching manager wasn't promoted and left behind a horrible mess that takes down the company.
The door plug from the #AlaskaAirlines#737max lands in physics teacher Bob Sauer's yard. He uses the opportunity to give a lesson on impulse and momentum to a reporter from the New York Times.
Well this is interesting. I can easily find online a Usenet post I wrote in 1989, but the Flight Data Recorder of the 737 MAX that had issues late last week can only hold two hours of Cockpit Data Recorder information and the information obtained during the incident was overwritten (as reported by NPR this morning). Very interesting, indeed. #737MAX#boeing737max
Many years ago I did tech support for a software developer when I got a call from a Boeing engineer who needed help.
We were trained never to leave "dead air" on the call, so while I was researching his issue I started to riff..."Boeing, Boeing, Boeing, is that the noise they make when the planes hit the tarmac?"
A long period of absolutely dead silence on the other end.
Boeing's ongoing #737Max crisis
"SEPT 2019: Boeing board of directors creates permanent safety committee to oversee development, manufacturing & operation of its aircraft.. DEC 2020: #Congress passes legislation to reform how #FAA certifies new airplanes .. DEC 2022: Congress agrees to extend a deadline for new standards for modern cockpit alerts stemming fr 2020 legislation after intense lobbying fr Boeing" #Boeing puts #profits b4 safety & lives because they CAN in USA! https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2719714/timeline-boeings-ongoing-737-max-crisis
In 12/2022, #Boeing succeeded in lobbying against safety measures for #Boeing73MAX 7 certified in 2023 with Congress sticking the airframe manufacturer’s language into the must-pass year-end budget bill
They weren't moving fast enough to implement safety measures and the FAA was too slow so they asked (em donors paid) Congress to pass an exemption
Not sure the status now, but bad look for them, esp for #Max. #Max7#737max