Defects In Aging Passenger Jets Exposed [Boeing]

KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Special Report ^ | 05.05.2004 | Kris Halsne

[SW6906]

FYI: Boeing has been building 777s for almost ten years now, and 737NGs for almost seven. There are a lot of those types with a lot of cycles and hours on them.

But the key is not the aircraft age, it is the maintenance of the aircraft. Check out the airline that is operating it.

[Amish with an attitude]

737 with Sun Roof option.

http://www.aircrash.org/burnelli/alohapic.htm

[Monty22]

I know that's what it is about, but I prefer under 15 years old for sure.

[Lexinom]

To each his own.

[arasina]

Yesterday I saw a well-kept bright yellow Ford Maverick being driven along the highway by an older woman. It just looked so strange --- I had forgotten about that model of car and probably hadn't seen one for years --- and then I caught your mention of them to illustrate a point about airplane maintenance. /twilight zone :o)

[Last Dakotan]

This weakness is also going to hurt Bush real bad.

The bane of the American flying public!

[Lexinom]

Bush's fault.

[SW6906]

I rolled my white-with-orange stripe Maverick Grabber (302 V8!) back in the early eighties. Walked away with barely a scratch on my forehaed. The grief I got from my parents was almost worse than the accident, LOL!

[Last Dakotan]

Bush's fault.

You just wait CBS will find a way to pin this one on him too. LOL

[Lexinom]

Yeah, I can hear it nowL

Rather: "... airline spokesmen have claimed to follow all federal FAA regulations regarding inspection. XYZ, a spokesman for the Bush Administration, has denied any wrongdoing. For the families of the victims, the verdict is still out... And now we turn to...."

[Retired Chemist]

"Fourteen years earlier, an Aloha Airlines 737 opened up like a sardine can, killing one person and injuring eight more."

Didn't the investigation attribute this to the number of take-offs and landings the aircraft had experienced?

[Larry Lucido]

Hence the nickname "scare-bus".....

Agreed. Of course, this was my idea of a real "scare-bus."

[ASOC]

I have actually flown on these 727- look-alikes in Russia - weird seats that fold flat, the escape slide is a knotted rope and don't ask about the rest rooms (ick!)

[Rate_Determining_Step]

Is trimming excess calk with a box cutter prescribed in the factory maintenance documentation?

Rather than just raise questions, why not answer the basic question that would focus liability where it belongs?

My guess is that it's NOT ok to score the superstructure with a knife and therefore the airline's fault.

Much like the bad jack-screw that downed that 737. Not Boeing's fault.

[Larry Lucido]

I took the one in the picture from Moscow to Aktau. The seats and restroom were exactly as you describe. And the overhead luggage rack was a shelf with a rope across it, like on a Greyhound bus.

[Agnes Heep]

I want something brand new.

We learn by experience. May yours not be the one they learn by!

[al baby]

The aircraft was hit by a surface to air missile shortly after departing Baghdad International Airport. A/C ran off the runway during an emergency landing but crew escaped with minor injuries. A true testament to flying skill!

[Chewbacca]

USAF Technical Orders for maintaining aircraft say to spread sealant on aircraft using a wooden or plastic spreading knife.

Metal knifes are strickly forbidden.

[Rate_Determining_Step]

There you have it. Boeing guiltless. Guilt lies with the airlines. End of story.

[boris]

No other manufacturers' planes wear out, are subject to corrosion or fatigue. Just Boeing's. Imagine that.