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nekandro ( nekandro@lemmy.ml )  to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Boeing 737 Max 9: United Airlines finds loose bolts during inspections

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Boeing 737 Max 9: United Airlines finds loose bolts during inspections

www.bbc.co.uk

nekandro ( nekandro@lemmy.ml )  to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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The airline finds installation issues, including bolts in need of "tightening", during checks of Boeing planes.
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    The reason I added the “if” is because I didn’t see any information about age and don’t know the specifics of the engineering/specs. Bolts needing the be checked annually and tightened every 5 on average could be perfectly reasonable with how much stress is on airplanes. There’s a reason frequent inspection is enforced more heavily on airplanes, and it’s not just because failures mean potentially falling out of the sky.

    But yeah, it’s entirely possible they fucked up, but it’s for sure United Alaska did.

    • RenardDesMers ( RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml ) 
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      The plane was delivered in October so it was brand new

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        That’s helpful extra context. Then hard to argue Boeing didn’t shit the bed too.

    • SomeoneSomewhere ( SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ) 
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      I think you mean Alaska.

      • conciselyverbose ( conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 
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        Yep. I can’t read.

        Thanks.

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