Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air

Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by traverseda on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:39PM (#38887808)

Can someone make a list of unsafe Boeing planes?

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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by nostrademons on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:58PM (#38888254)

The 737 MAX and 787 have both had significant issues. Basically it's anything introduced after the merger with McDonnell Douglass in 1997.

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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by eastbound on Saturday January 06, 2024 @12:55AM (#38888836)

Boeing’s processes, not planes, are unsafe.

In 2013 they received frames (the circular structures that make the fuselage) which instead of being machined, has been created manually. Voids were all in the wrong place because the workers had taken the blueprints symmetrically.

Did they ditch the frames? Of course not? They remade the cuts so that it fits upside down! And soldered the I-beam parts that had been cut! Result: The circular frames, which are a critical structural component, have twice as many gaps and holes and soldered sections than the designed piece.

Bulkheads, circular frames, MCAS… It’s appalling engineering practices.

And the dinner party system with FAA, introduced by Mac Donnell’s practices when it was bought over, has to stop. They should not be friends in real life.

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