United finds loose bolts on door plugs on several 737 Max 9 planes following Alaska Airlines mid-air door blowout incident
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United Airlines, which has 79 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, did not confirm how many planes had loose bolts.
  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
    51·
    11 months ago

    United Airlines… did not confirm how many planes had loose bolts

    If it was just a few, they would have confirmed how many

    • Tremble
      152·
      11 months ago

      I doubt they would confirm before they had tested every bolt on a few planes

      Or at least one, testing every bolt, or at least this bolt on a bunch of them

      But they would need a sensitive tool to measure torq needed to unlock it that’s kinda cool

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
        212·
        11 months ago

        Loose bolts indicate vibration, and that is a death knell for Boeing … because their engineers should have known how many bolts would be needed and the torque required to lock them in.

        Boeing will pay through the nose for this screw up.

        • Wolf_359@lemmy.world
          13·
          11 months ago

          Nah, they’ll keep getting exceptions for the 737 max until they have the worst plane crash in history. Then something might be done and bigger changes might be made.

          • becausechemistry@lemm.ee
            4·
            11 months ago

            Realistically, how much worse could they get? The disasters so far have only been limited by the number of people they can kill due to the plane’s capacity.

            Probably would have been different if they failed after taking off from New York or Chicago instead of Indonesia or Ethiopia, because, of course.

            • Wolf_359@lemmy.world
              1·
              11 months ago

              I think a plane crashing into a populated city or neighborhood would up those numbers quite a lot though. And yeah, good point. I think another reason the 737 max issues haven’t been taken more seriously yet is because the two big accidents involved people from developing nations. Imagine if those planes were full of Americans.

    • MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      11 months ago

      If all of them were subject to Alaska Airlines’ WiFi equipment installation post-sale, which required unbolting the door plugs, then all of them have to be rechecked and rebooted. This you won’t hear from them :)

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 months ago

    Oh shit…they are going to go after Fred Novabitch the guy at final assembly who goes around with the torque wrench and finish off the screws. You should have done your job Fred!