Re:Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue
by msoloi on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:07AM
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This is a good sign, they have realized that it would've destroyed the company if they had another jet liner fall from the sky due to a problem they chose to ignore. This way, they appear to be doing their due diligence, even though they made a mistake in manufacturing.
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Re:Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue
by SketchySeaBeast on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:16AM
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The real question now is how are they identifying these issues now and how many more have they identified or failed to identify.
Re:Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue
by ardy42 on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:34PM
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It sounds like they're combing over historical manufacturing records:
> The company “conducted a thorough review of the manufacturing data with respect to both shimming and skin surface profile. Based on that analysis we were able to determine that both conditions affected these eight airplanes only,” said the Boeing spokesman, who added that it has notified the Federal Aviation Administration “and are conducting a thorough review into the root cause.”
Who knows why they decided to review that data. Maybe they have a project to try to spot problems they missed before, or maybe someone just noticed a problem on a newer plane and they went back to find out if any others were affected by that same problem.
Re:Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue
by stevehawk on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:37PM
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Someone knows why and there's likely a non conspiracy reason behind it. Such as:
one of them went in for an inspection (they're inspected a lot) and someone noticed something wrong in a significant capacity. Which then made it's way through Boeing because it shouldn't happened and they realized a potential problem.