No one was seated near the 'plug door' panel that became detached during a flight from Oregon to Southern California Friday, the NTSB's board chair said.
I agree Boeing has made some dumb moves, but this has little to do with MCAS or the 787 rework. The pictures show no damage to the door frame or the retainers that the door was held in place. It seems likely either someone forgot the bolts, or at least forgot the cotter pins in the crown nuts, which isn’t an engineering issue. The interesting thing will be to see who made that error.
Boeing would do well the fire Dave Calhoun immediately (and whoever decided to put an accountant in charge of an aeronautical and aerospace company), and put an engineer there ASAP. The decision to save money and not clean sheet a 737 replacement will cost them more in damages and lost business than a new plane would have cost.
What about the wiring bundles on the 47 or the metal shavings found in airplanes, tools found in the KC-46. There was even a report of a ladder found in a plane.
I totally get you are calling for calm, 100% a good thing. It just seems like these are not isolated incidents, but a culture of negligence.
You are right about the failure of not clean sheeting a new plane. It could easily cost them their narrow body business.
I agree Boeing has made some dumb moves, but this has little to do with MCAS or the 787 rework. The pictures show no damage to the door frame or the retainers that the door was held in place. It seems likely either someone forgot the bolts, or at least forgot the cotter pins in the crown nuts, which isn’t an engineering issue. The interesting thing will be to see who made that error.
Boeing would do well the fire Dave Calhoun immediately (and whoever decided to put an accountant in charge of an aeronautical and aerospace company), and put an engineer there ASAP. The decision to save money and not clean sheet a 737 replacement will cost them more in damages and lost business than a new plane would have cost.
What about the wiring bundles on the 47 or the metal shavings found in airplanes, tools found in the KC-46. There was even a report of a ladder found in a plane.
I totally get you are calling for calm, 100% a good thing. It just seems like these are not isolated incidents, but a culture of negligence.
You are right about the failure of not clean sheeting a new plane. It could easily cost them their narrow body business.
I’m not saying Boeing has been great, but to jump to the conclusion all Boeings are unsafe is ridiculous.