Beginning to think that Boeing is the victim of a foreign industrial sabotage campaign. If a country like China is making huge investments to produce commercial aircraft, their efforts would be immensely aided by knocking Boeing off its traditional perch.
Chicoms are ruthless.
But a lot of these are AIRLINE maintenance failures. I suspect the airline maintenance crews and ground crews are very woke.
The three obvious Boeing problems are the two MAX crashes (MCAS software) and the door plug over Portland.
Could also be the French: they have a fairly extensive industrial espionage program. Macron is pushing French arms in Europe now that US aid for Ukraine is stymied. Plus we seem (with reason) to be a contemptible weakling under the "Biden" junta.
Or could be someone shorting Boeing.
See my post above this one.
Boeing Chief Engineer, Howard McKenzie, all around smarty pants:
https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/howard-mckenzie
China does have a competitor to the 737 called the C919.
The 737 is a workhorse. Generally has been reliable - southwest uses them exclusively and they fly fast and hard, turnaround quickly and go again many times a day. There are so many of them out there that the odds are when there is an issue it’s likely to be a 737.
China has been shut out of aviation for now both here and in Europe but use the C919 over in Asia. But Airbus has pretty good quality. The A320 seems to fly smoother and quieter to me, as a passenger. We haven’t heard them having the same safety issues lately but there are fewer of them especially among US carriers and they are relatively newer (fewer miles).
So if there is some foul play, or just sloppy maintenance, this could benefit the C919 and A320 in new sales worldwide.
Oh I see this was a Max 8. That Max plane was a mistake. Boeing wanted to use more fuel efficient engines, which is understandable - it saves money to airlines and pleases the climate Gaia worshippers. But the engines are bigger and heavier. Rather than design a new fuselage they just adjusted the position of the engines and some wing enhancements. It was a shortcut to get it through FAA regulations, and also so they didn’t have to build a new fuselage factory. But you just can’t have it all. It’s less stable overall which is why they had to make a bunch of other little tweaks - not to mention that software issue that caused 2 total catastrophes.
Another united flight lose a wheel after takeoff the other day.