I thought i just had to avoid getting on a Boeing, now i have to watch out for the ones in the sky?
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.
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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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.
Shocker that quality took a dive when Boeing stopped using North American labour to build their planes in favour of developing countries.
I didn’t think you could have a racist take on Boeing’s sudden drop in quality and yet liberals will always find a way.
I imagine you think quality planes are still riveted together by the hand of a team of buxom broads.
No, Quality was when the wing struts were made in Canada with a single, massive CNC mill. Not in a developing country by near-slave labour.