Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight::The FAA ordered that 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes be inspected before they can return to service following the explosive decompression of an Alaska Airlines flight.
Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight::The FAA ordered that 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes be inspected before they can return to service following the explosive decompression of an Alaska Airlines flight.
The incident seems much more serious than an isolated case of a doorplug falling off, I wonder if they are hiding something, another design flaw maybe?
My assumption is that the 737 Max is simply a fundamentally unsafe and unsound design.
I’m sure within 15 years they’ll complete the final retrofit to make it safe and sound, and in the end, it will end up costing 300% of what a new design would have.
But, it’ll actually work out for Boeing executives and shareholders, so it will be taught to future MBA student as a success story about the heroic and stoic leadership that generated record profits for the low cost of a few hundred lives.
Most of the fuselage should be insanely similar to other 737 models. I can’t imagine how someone fucked up badly enough to lose a door plug,
That’s the problem… Reusing a 50±year-old design, with new engines and other technology that should have been used with a new fuselage design…
I don’t think they’d ground the entire fleet if this was just a mechanic who made some one-off error. There’s probably some human error involved, but those on the ground human errors are only catastrophic because of the design choices Boeing made.
I don’t even think it was a door. I watched a video of it on TikTok and it looked like a regular row of seats. I think it was just a piece of the hull.
Have they stated what fell off yet? I can’t imagine how scary that was.
Door plug means that it’s a spot in the frame where a future door can be installed by removing the “plug”. In the meantime, it just looks like a piece of the fuselage. The plug is what got ripped out midair.
I heard it was one of those emergency exit panels (not a full door, nor just a passenger window) but that could be inaccurate. Either way, not a good look for Boeing.