Boeing issues (was: 737Max Back In the News)

Likely not, but it is interesting how often Boeing is in the news lately.

Don't hear a lot about Airbus, for example.
They are there but because of the Max issues, they dont make the news.

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Accidents and Incidents Involving the Airbus A320 Family:
 
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787 has a "technical problem" and dozens are injured

At Least 50 Injured On LATAM Airlines Boeing 787 After Technical Problem Causes Sudden Drop In Altitude (forbes.com)

People ‘flew through the cabin’: What it was like inside the Latam flight | Stuff

Jokat said there was no turbulence after the incident and once the plane landed the pilot came to the back of the plane in “shock”.

“I asked ‘what happened?’ and he said ‘my gauges just blanked out, I lost all of my ability to fly the plane’.”
 
FAA Issues New AD for Boeing 737 MAX Wing Spoilers - Aviation A2Z

The FAA’s issuance of this airworthiness directive was prompted by a report detailing “a non-conforming installation of spoiler wire bundles that led to unintended spoiler motion, including one instance of spoiler hardover.”

wire chafing damage resulting from spoiler control wire bundles riding on the landing gear beam rib in the right wing trailing edge due to non-conforming installation of spoiler wire bundles during production.

These things have miles and miles of wiring. Wonder how much more was improperly installed?
 
Their one mission is to maximize shareholder profit, according to some.

They aren't always clear if that's only this quarter or this year or for the next twenty years.

Either way, I think it's wrong past a certain point.

Boeing has a responsibility to the public to produce planes that are safe.

If they can't do it, shut them down until they can.
 
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FAA auditors found that out of 89 product audits that were conducted, Boeing passed 56 tests and failed 33 of them, according to the report.

During the six-week audit, the FAA also conducted 13 product audits that focused on Spirit AeroSystems, which makes fuselages for the Boeing 737 Max — of those, only six audits resulting in passing grades, and seven failed, the NYT said.
 

As new questions arise about Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jet, FRONTLINE and The New York Times update an award-winning investigation into the design, oversight and production of a plane that was involved in two crashes that killed 346 people. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate In October 2018, a Boeing 737 Max passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff off the coast of Indonesia. Five months later, following an eerily similar flight pattern, another 737 Max 8 went down in Ethiopia. Everyone on board the flights died. "Boeing's Fatal Flaw" tells the inside story of what led up to the crashes — revealing how intense market pressure and failed oversight contributed to tragic deaths and a catastrophic crisis for one of the world’s most iconic industrial names. This updated documentary also examines what’s happened since the original film first aired in 2021, including the January 2024 Alaska Airlines incident where a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max jet’s body midair, and how Boeing has responded.
 
“If you ask me, the first thing that needs to happen for Boeing to gain trust is to basically fire the entire C suite,” Gad Allon, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, told me Tuesday. “I know that will not happen, but … there is not a single person that has a C in front of their title that is not responsible for what we’re seeing now.”
 
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