Posted on 01/06/2024 11:09:41 AM PST by janetjanet998
From what I understand, the absorption of McDonnell-Douglas was the beginning of the end for Boeing.
Okay, so this wasn’t a door. It was actually a panel in place of a door? Maybe they should have used duct tape.
Didn’t think they were still used.
From zerohedge:
“We need to revisit internal communications from Boeing employees that pointed out Max jets were “designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.” “
“...it’s clear that this was an emergency exit door that detached...”
The hole certainly looks like a door.
It WOULD be a nice feature except for the low pressure, low temperature and lack of survivable oxygen.
>> The airline had Boeing put in a window panel.
Guess the airline forgot to tell ‘em “screw it down when ya put it in”. So hard to find good help these days.
Thanks for posting that video. That guy provides a good description of the inactive emergency door panel.
This has been confusing for some. It was definitely a design screwup of sorts and I have they get it sorted out.
Thats one hell of a view.
They ever get the disappering bolts on the rudder controls issue solved?
Again???
Ain’t diversity grand?
There used to be a lot of Boeing cheerleaders on FR. Where did they all go? Did they manage to do a pump and dump on the stock, or did Boeing lay off their social media team?
There was a mom and child in that row. The child's shirt was sucked off the child and out the window.
Doomed from the start. Time for Boeing to scrap it.
I still make sure I’m on a Boeing before I book the flight. What’s the alternative, AirBus?
Yeah this was really a door/window area, not an entire section of an airplane. Still a big deal, but its more of a fastener/insert improperly instaled, rather than a major structural design flaw. More likely bad processes/procedures and testing/safety checks rather than flawed airplane design.
Last couple of flights were on an A321. It was fine for sardine class travel (about 2.5 hour flight). From a passenger standpoint, I don’t see the Boeing competition as being objectively better.
I see the MAX as being a major Boeing screw up that they built primarily to keep Southwest happy. Poor design choices at every opportunity so that Southwest could call it the same plane and save re-training costs for pilots.
Two words of wisdom for senior Boeing execs without charging them a huge consulting fee.
1) The customer isn’t always right - sometimes you have to tell them ‘no’.
2) DEI is more accurately spelled DIE.
Good link. I was going to post it when I saw yours. Blancolirio is a great observer and commenter on all things aero related, especially mishaps or worse. He knows of what he speaks - he’s a senior Boeing 777 pilot for American Airlines he lives in northern CA and flies the route from the US to Australia.
looks like some of the passengers were treated to the “bay window view”
seriously-how hard is it really to be sure the fuselage elements...stay connected to the fuselage?
Mankind has been building enclosed fuselage planes for over 100 years now
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