DEI maintenance or construction staff at peak performance?
What’s the big deal? You always have extra pieces when the job is finished.
I wonder if there were union work rules at play concerning just who was allowed/not allowed to perform the task of bolt insertion?
The plane/ panel went in for maintenance and the bolts were not put back when it was reassembled.
This was a worker/ repair process error and not a defect in the plane. If true, that should go better for Boeing.
Another article seemed to say workers for the air carrier were responsible.
Anyone else think that the Feds already have this “in hand”?
What I can anticipate is that fewer flights will be allowed. Even if travelers are willing to take the risk, the government might limit air travel in various ways.
Will Pfizer need to roll out a clot shot for aircraft?
Who needs bolts when Boeing has the most woke, diverse staff in the aviation world?
The 737 is an excellent design, even the door plug which blew out. The problem is quality control in the fabrication process of a most excellent aircraft.
In addition the 737 Max was a most excellent aircraft with a bad computer system that caused two crashes.
A friend of mine an ex Air Force Pilot and 737 airline captain now retired explained it to me very simply:
Computer 2
Pilots 0
It should also be noted that both those crashes were third world airlines. First world airlines had also encountered the computer problem and superior pilots coped with it. However, those two pilots in those third world airlines should have never been flying against a rouge computer program. They were inferior pilots. They are also innocent pilots. No where in their training is a chapter that says, today the computer in your aircraft will try to kill you.
Bolts are expensive, doods!
Last time I went to the hardware store for bolts I almost blew a plug.
Plane Had Missing Bolts.
Those that put the door plug in have the bolts!
They could not have missed having 4 bolts laying around!
There is even an email from a maintenance crew with photo of the bolts missing.
They knew so why was it not reported?
Imagine knowing you were sitting next to that door plug in the past flights!
If this blowout happened at say 35,000ft then many would have died except the pilots and anyone able to get to the oxygen quick enough.
Our airliners have missing bolts and the White House Administration has more than one screw loose.
If bolts were missing, how did the crews pressurize the cabin? Missing fasteners mean vacant holes for air to leak from the cabin. Did the crews us manual pressurization to override the auto pressurization? Were there maintenance complaints made to the mechanics and instead of grounding the aircraft for major air leaks the mechanics just signed off the aircraft as repaired and returned it to service? That is done for minor issues but if you cannot pressurize the cabin that is very dangerous as was proven when a major fuselage door blows out. If that would have happened at 39000 feet altitude many people would have gone out into the slipstream;
Why didn’t someone notice that they had four extra bolts left over when the job was done?
Spirit AeroSystems boasts a big diversity and inclusion program... and the president was fired a few months ago because the quality of the company’s work was terrible to the point of being dangerous.
It had been a male plane, but was transitioning to female, and had it’s bolts removed.