United Airlines has found loose bolts and other parts on 737 Max 9 plug doors as it inspects its fleet of Boeing jets following the Friday rapid depressurization aboard an Alaska Airlines jet of the same make, according to three people familiar with the findings.
The discrepant bolts and other parts on the plug doors have been found on at least five aircraft, one of the people told The Air Current.
A Boeing representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration declined to comment on the United findings, and pointed to the agency’s earlier statements.
United confirmed the findings in a statement, saying, “Since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug – for example, bolts that needed additional tightening. These findings will be remedied by our Tech Ops team to safely return the aircraft to service.”
Between this shit and the whole counterfeit airplane maintenance parts, my trust is wavering
What about the outsourced flight control software built by first year software engineers (at best)? Was that Boeing?
What about Starliner, the human rated spacecraft that is (currently) 6 years late? Was that Boeing?
Boeing stock is gonna drop like a motherfucker again tomorrow lol.
Kinda like a plane coming in for an emergency landing because it’s fucking door fell out.
More like one using a faulty autopilot
Do we know when the plug doors are installed? Is it in the main factory, or at a later finishing stage? If it’s later, hopefully the issue is contained to those facilities. Otherwise, they’re looking at serious general quality questions.
People might boycott 737 MAX unless Boeing addresses the problems seriously. I would take extra precaution if I board a 737 MAX. Airbus models seem better in quality than Boeing’s.
As companies make profit their number one priority, we will be seeing much more of this kind of thing … that is until inspections are cut back in the name of profit.
Some dumbass executive:
“We need to show our investors more profit, why is the quality control expense so large? We haven’t had quality control issues in years, slash it!”
