Boeing 737 Max 9 planes that have passed a new inspection process will be permitted to fly again, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has announced.
Almost 200 aircraft were grounded in early January following a mid-air emergency on an Alaska Airlines flight.
On 5 January, a flight leaving Portland, Oregon had to make an emergency landing after part of the plane — known as a door plug or a fuselage plug — flew off, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the aircraft.
i was filtering flights for max planes before this latest nonsense, im not about to stop
I get why you’d do that for the flight control stuff, but is there a reason to think that the loose-bolts/side-falling-off thing is specific to this plane? It seems like any new Boeing plane would be vulnerable to the same process failures.
I guess they are 3/4 of the planes Boeing delivers, and the only ones likely to be used short haul.
nope. im still more afraid of the thing that took 2 fully loaded planes down. and i agree. that boeing has clearly lost all qc is kinda terrifying.
Right after this post I ended up reading the whistleblower thread. If you haven’t read it, it’s amazing:
Their manufacturing is suspect on anything new, but also the max line has several fundamental problems outside of this that have not truly been addressed.
loose-bolts/side-falling-off thing is specific to this plane?
At least for 737 the Max 9 is the only one long enough to have this extra door/plug option. None of the others are long enough to need it in any configuration, so there simply isn’t a hole in the plane for anything except this one (or its previous generation, the 17 year old 737-900ER, which they’re also checking just to be sure)
Yyyyeah, fuck that, will forever be filtering flights to avoid the late-stage capitalist death trap.