Maybe, maybe not. I've done enough accident investigations to know that there is rarely a single cause, and that lots of smaller overlooked problems often play a much bigger role than initially thought.
Off Topic -- United Airlines Maintenance
- Thread starter dailybuck777
- Start date
Maybe, maybe not. I've done enough accident investigations to know that there is rarely a single cause, and that lots of smaller overlooked problems often play a much bigger role than initially thought.
Boeing Battle: Was Dreamliner Move to S.C. Legal or Strike Retaliation?
A new $750 million Boeing factory in South Carolina is at the heart of a controversial National Labor Relations Board case. It was opened as a second location to build 787 Dreamliner jets after a series of union strikes in Washington state plants. Margaret Warner discusses the matter with The...
www.pbs.org
Dang. they are trying to lower costs and tax exposure to make higher shareholder value! The bastards!
Documents show Boeing saw South Carolina as worst option for 787
SEATTLE - Newly uncovered Boeing Co. documents show the company's own executives believed that Project Gemini - their plan to punish workers in this state by establishing a second 787 line in South Carolina - was their highest risk option for their new Dreamliner jet and the one most likely to...peoplesworld.org
WSJ reports a flight attendant hit a button that caused the pilot’s seat to lunge forward pushing him into the flight controls.
?🤷 Says he/she was serving a meal.
Guess that what those crazy kids call it these days.🤷🏿♂️
Boeing junk, United gets fed up, JetBlue moves on: Airlines news roundup
Plus, even more bad Boeing news, including pilot seats that might move
qz.com
93,000 scheduled flights in the USA each day, stuff happens, stuff has always happened, and fortunately planes and procedures are designed with enough redundancy that actual crashes are incredibly rare.
Boeing unfortunately has earned its way to a place where every time a toilet gets clogged or a can of coke get spilled on a Boeing jet, there's going to be news coverage.
But meanwhile there hasn't been a fatal commercial airline crash since a Colgan Air commuter jet went down in an ice storm in 2009 (that crash involved pilot mistakes and a bad stall warning device). There hasn't been a disaster involving a Boeing 737 in the US since 1994 -- almost 30 years. If you think flying 737s is dangerous, your bathtub is much more dangerous.
It's disingenuous to say or imply the new 737 models are the same or similar to the old ones. They're the same size, they have a similar name, but that's about the extent of the similarities.
Yes and no. It's the same fuselage, cockpit and wing architecture as the original 737 -- first drawn up in the early 60s. It was designed for airports before there were modern gates with jet bridges, which is why it's so low to the ground, which is problematic today because there's not enough room for modern large-diameter engines. The Max entailed a series of ugly workarounds, mounting the engines at a different location/angle, which changed the flight characteristics and made stall more likely, which led to MCAS, which led to the crashes.
Boeing should have done a clean sheet 737 30 years ago but never got around to it because the program made money and the bean counters didn't want to take a short term financial hit. Boeing spent over $50 billion of its cash on stock buybacks instead of investing in its own business, and now they don't have the money to do a new 737, which is why a lot of people in the business think Boeing commercial is circling the drain and will be absorbed into Airbus.
However, MCAS disaster nonwithstanding, the 737 is safe and Maxes are safer than classics or next-gens. So much more redundancy is built in than 30-40 years ago, so much better monitoring systems to spot problems before they become critical, so many design fixes due to the long history of flying them. And components such as engines are ridiculously more reliable than they used to be.
Boeing and the FAA still have to answer for the MCAS disaster, but that was a design/engineering/oversight failure, and fundamentally a failure of Boeing to be truthful. If Boeing had told the truth about MCAS, the FAA probably would have understood the flaws and sent them back to the drawing board before launch, and we would have had 2 fewer Max crashes (and Boeing would today be in much better shape).
An interesting video on MH370, the Malaysian airline that disappeared. The first 46 minutes deals with what has already been previously known. Sounds like the pilot knew how everything in the plane worked in intricate detail, and how he could have used that knowledge to easily incapacitate everyone on the plane. At the 46 minute mark he gets into an American Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist's newish hobby work on radio waves being able to possibly track its last moments.
