FAA Gives Boeing Stern Rebuke While Approving
737 Max 9 Inspection Protocols
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Justin Bachman
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Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/24/2024 7:06:30 PM
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it has approved a protocol for airlines flying the Boeing 737 Max 9 to inspect and repair the grounded aircraft, potentially returning them to commercial service within days.
However, the news came with a severe warning to Boeing: The agency won’t allow the company to expand 737 Max production beyond its current output, alarmed by a series of quality-assurance lapses that have bedeviled the company’s aircraft. An “exhaustive, enhanced review” of the 737 Max 9 door plugs has given the FAA confidence to allow airlines to begin inspecting and rectifying any problems with the systems on some Max 9s, FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 1/24/2024 7:15:47 PM (No. 1643628)
Boeing is run by its shareholders, guided by the shareholders' steadfast, primary commitment to the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of the manufacturing process.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/24/2024 7:16:44 PM (No. 1643629)
'Woke' FAA 'admonishes' 'Woke' Boeing.
The Pot calling the Kettle Black.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bamboozle 1/24/2024 7:20:13 PM (No. 1643635)
One might think that a severe warning would be to stop all deliveries until Boeing cleans up its act, not to allow them to push more planes through the system?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
janjan 1/24/2024 8:01:41 PM (No. 1643658)
So did Buttigieg send them a strongly worded letter asking them not to endanger American lives any more than necessary? I feel so safe now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 1/24/2024 8:08:13 PM (No. 1643661)
Being rebuked by the FAA is like being rebuked by Commie-la, without the cackling.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/24/2024 8:23:03 PM (No. 1643670)
Controlling for pilot error, Boeing commercial and military aircraft are the safest in the skies. Airline maintenance, not so much.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
red1066 1/24/2024 8:44:32 PM (No. 1643681)
From what I understand, Those Max planes are ordered with or without the door. All of the plane frames however, are made with the cutout for the door even if the airline doesn't want a door. So, the plug that failed is a where a door would have gone if the airline had ordered the plane with a door. This makes no sense if one uses common sense, However, I guess it's less expensive to make all the planes with the same frame.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 1/24/2024 9:03:33 PM (No. 1643689)
Re #7, the "door" is an emergency exit, a hatch much smaller than a door, and what is done is to add bolts, nuts and lock those nuts to the bolts with cotter pins so that the nuts can't unscrew accidentally, and the bolts, when in place, prevent the latches from unlatching at all. The recovered door showed no errors in manufacturing or damage to latches. They had come unlatched, clearly, but impossible with the bokts in place.
From an aerospace engineering standpoint, and I spent a career in that industry, it seems a sound design, IF properly assembled and all parts installed and inspected.
This is an assembly and inspection problem, not a design problem.
Question: is Boeing hiring and accepting incompetent affirmative action hires as assemblers and/or inspectors? I don't know, but there is a lot of this these now.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/24/2024 10:18:35 PM (No. 1643713)
#7, it has to do with the number of passengers the airline plans to seat in the hull. Cattle car configuration requires an exit door.
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What's the difference between a sternly worded letter and a stern rebuke? Ans...Nothing, it was a trick question. Nothing will happen till a Boeing plane falls out of the sky. Hey Delta...Is your tire running ahead of the plane? Well you better catch it, or call AAA.
Thank God for DEI.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
john56 1/25/2024 12:01:48 AM (No. 1643741)
I got a dumb question. The Alaska Airlines issue was when an exit door plug flew off. Reason for the door plug was that Alaska didn't need the extra exits. Well, maybe when you buy a commercial airliner, you should have to take the exits that are built into the plane?
God forbid that you might have to have three or six less seats than you planned and a little extra leg room.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 1/25/2024 2:14:18 AM (No. 1643774)
No doubt the FAA's inspection closely reviewed Boeing's DEI protocols.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/25/2024 6:23:53 AM (No. 1643824)
Evidently DEI has overtaken the FAA...it's gonna be a rough ride 'til that evil system is eschewed in favor of greatness.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
philsner 1/25/2024 8:23:16 AM (No. 1643919)
Is this like Obama's "Red Line"?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/25/2024 10:15:18 AM (No. 1644010)
link:
https://www.cf.org/news/faas-diversity-push-hiring-people-with-severe-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disabilities
link:
https://www.boeing.com/sustainability/diversity-and-inclusion#Commitment
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/25/2024 11:58:32 AM (No. 1644141)
FAA Federal Assimilated Azzes
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/26/2024 10:25:35 PM (No. 1645292)
#11, '...Airlines that don’t cram as many passengers into a plane as an ultra low cost carrier have a ‘door plug’ instead of an extra emergency exit door, which would be needed to evacuate a larger number of passengers. ...'
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