Alaska Airlines says more “loose hardware” has been found on some of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet of aircraft.
It follows the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounding all 171 737 MAX 9 planes operated by US airlines after a window and chunk of fuselage blew out of one Alaska Airlines aircraft on 5 January shortly after it took off from an airport in Portland, Oregon.
Sky’s Paul Kelso went on a simulator to find out what it would have been like for the pilots on board.
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When it hit the ground it went BOING BOING BOING 737!.
If it's Boeing I'm not going
This is totally irresponsible, as I worked for a commercial airlines at an International Airport and saw the lack of security, safety, maintenance, and bad attitudes for myself.
For example, I reported a loose wheel on a cargo trailer that was obviously wobbling and had not been repaired for some time, only to have my safety report ignored.
Yep within a week, I watched that wheel break loose, which very nearly impacted a taxiing aircraft.
On another occasion, I arrived to work just in time to notice an aircraft taxing out to take off with its wing fuel door open. The pilot was immediately notified and had to return to the tarmac to close the door, which of course delayed the flight.
At root of the problem is the push for diversity in the workforce instead of qualified engineers and technicians who, in the general population, happen to not be brown.
I knew they were cheaply manufactured. 😢
The decompression must of been very basic.
The Australia-based website Airline Ratings put Australia and NZ airlines to be the safest while Air Canada and Delta are the least safest. Does it explain though?
Poor supervision as the same crew keeps making the same mistake or worse it is a poorly engineered design like the Other Max. No Boeings for me.
I think tis time Boeing outsources the manufacturing of these planes to China where quality standards are much higher!
"it's an incredibly safe aircraft…' Yes, just not as safe as it could be. Boeing needs to go into the dock.
Why weren’t they wearing oxygen masks?
The pilot saying that the 737 max is safe is misleading the public by including all 737s in his generalised statement. In fact I am neither a pilot nor engineer but I am old enough to remember 737s losing controls of their rear rudders and crashing. Yes that was sorted and in general the 737 is a safe aircraft. However the 737 max is anything but safe.
It started in 2014. That's when Boeing decided to focus on investor returns rather than quality and innovation. They began laying off their senior design engineers, their senior quality engineers and their senior purchasing agents, (buyers). Each of these disciplines are crucial to quality built products at a fair price.
Why did they do this? They were doing stock buy backs at the time and wanted cash and investor returns more than they wanted to maintain that Boeing reputation for quality.
Boeing dumped their older, experienced, higher paid staff in exchange for straight out of college, inexperienced, low wage employees. It isn't just those of us who got laid off who have suffered for Boeing's greed. The hundreds of people who have died in Boeing aircraft since 2014 are the very real victims of Boeing's desire for profits over quality and safety.
It needs like 200grams more metal in order for the plug to not be able to move up and out, contrary to a door. So the design is A. Part of the frame of an actual door or B made to be able to be opened towards the outside for ease of construction. In both cases this happened because they cheaped out of creating an actual plug for the hole.
Maximize profit until our liability threshold is met. That's the business model.
Why is the Press not reporting about the time the Alaska Airlines B737 MAX9 In question spent in OKC having a WI-FI Modification? From Various Public Information released it appears the Pressurization Issues started after the Visit to OKC.