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The Problem Boeing Ran Into After Designing The 737 MAX For Bigger Engines
Simple Flying ^ | 2025 | Aaron Spray

Posted on 12/09/2025 4:04:17 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: dagunk

“I’m not surprised they’re having serious troubles now. Too bad, really, but McDonnell-Douglas owns the problems.”
That’s what happens when you let a has been company take over management of the most successful airline manufacturer.


21 posted on 12/09/2025 6:20:33 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: Zhang Fei

Boeing could save money by getting rid of all their American citizen (white) engineers and staff and contracting out to an India contractor.

Great idea!


22 posted on 12/09/2025 6:35:52 PM PST by OldArmy52 (Resisting criminals is a punishable offense )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Boeing certainly knows how to discourage whistle blowing.


23 posted on 12/09/2025 6:51:18 PM PST by PAR35 (I)
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To: dagunk
Moving what was left of Boeing management to Chicago.

But Chicago had an Opera house. Dallas didn't. (Dallas learned from that. They built an Opera house and now have opera.)

24 posted on 12/09/2025 7:00:33 PM PST by PAR35 (I)
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To: ChuckHam

Please elaborate, because Boeing will deliver hundreds of these this year. Is this what you meant by “dropping like flies”?


25 posted on 12/09/2025 9:40:05 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: DennisR

I was being sarcastic. The aircraft is very reliable.


26 posted on 12/10/2025 6:22:59 AM PST by ChuckHam
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To: Zhang Fei

Thank you for the details.
“But who watches the custodians? “


27 posted on 12/10/2025 7:30:11 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE
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To: ChuckHam

Whoops! I should have known!


28 posted on 12/10/2025 9:39:58 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Speaking of gaslighting, nice regurgitation of talking points. How many pilots that went for training on the 737 MAX8 were involved in crashes?


29 posted on 12/11/2025 9:22:56 AM PST by No Party Affiliation (The)
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As per American Airlines pilots’ union. Boeing ignored even THEIR (the American pilots’) suggestions for improvements.

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“Shame on you… we’re going to call you out on it,” Tajer said of Boeing Thursday ahead of a Federal Aviation Administration meeting of international aviation regulators in Fort Worth, Texas. “That’s a poisoned, diseased philosophy.”

Tajer also told CNN American Airlines pilots made several suggestions on how to improve the safety of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) in a meeting with Boeing in November 2018, a few weeks after the October crash of Lion Air flight JT 610 in Indonesia and months before the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March.

When asked if the Ethiopian crash might have been prevented if Boeing had taken action on the pilots’ suggestions, Tajer said, “I think that’s a fair conclusion.”

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/business/american-airlines-boeing-pilots-union


30 posted on 12/11/2025 10:08:41 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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