Boeing’s on a streak...

[StraightnLevel]

.....and another one. Of course the plane is 34 years old, but that doesn't change the headline.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247454971/delta-airlines-boeing-plane-emergency-jfk?ft=nprml&f=1006

 

[Hengelo]

File this under "truth is stranger than fiction"

Missing emergency slide that fell off Delta flight found — washed up in front of house of lawyer whose firm is suing Boeing

Jake Bissell-Linsk — a New York attorney whose firm filed a lawsuit against Boeing following the Alaska Airlines door blowout in January — told The Post he got a surprise on Sunday arou…

nypost.com

 

[TCABM]

.....and another one. Of course the plane is 34 years old, but that doesn't change the headline.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247454971/delta-airlines-boeing-plane-emergency-jfk?ft=nprml&f=1006

File this under "truth is stranger than fiction"

Missing emergency slide that fell off Delta flight found — washed up in front of house of lawyer whose firm is suing Boeing

Jake Bissell-Linsk — a New York attorney whose firm filed a lawsuit against Boeing following the Alaska Airlines door blowout in January — told The Post he got a surprise on Sunday arou…

nypost.com

The slide as a dropped object puzzles me. In the E-3 (707 airframe), the slide is part of the door, and there’s a bar that has to be manually attached to the floor once the door is closed. Once the door is closed, the entire assembly is surrounded by airframe.

How a slide turns into a dropped object seems like a procedural error or inadvertent deployment that should have been noticed at pushback or somewhere along taxi. I have a hard time seeing this as a manufacturing defect.

 

[guest user]

I have a hard time seeing this as a manufacturing defect.

BOEING!!!! BOEING!!!! BOEING!!!!

That's all that is required to almost guarantee a guilty verdict. (Only thing more ironclad would be if it had happened to a United flight.)

 

[Albany Tom]

Eh. They kinda earned it, so I can't feel badly about. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts.

Also interesting that it's the whole company. I remember the DC-10 problems, and that didn't become a McDD thing, it was just a DC-10 thing. Then on the other hand, that was a maintenance problem, if I remember correctly, not a manufacturing problem, and I don't remember that companies management being exposed as covering it up. Similar with the Pinto. That was a Pinto thing, not a Ford thing, even if they did know about the problems. I was in grade school at the time, though, so not sure about any of the facts.

 

[TipTanks]

2nd Boeing whistleblower found dead. Here's a timeline of the company's mounting problems.

This is the second Boeing whistleblower to die in the last two months.

www.yahoo.com

 

[AviationObserver]

And the hits just keep on a comin'

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/faa-opens-new-boeing-inquiry-after-jet-maker-says-it-may-have-missed-some-787-inspections-39e1b028?mod=business_lead_pos2

Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe

The FAA has opened a new investigation into a potential manufacturing quality lapse on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and whether inspection records were falsified.

www.seattletimes.com

https://archive.ph/NBvqF

 

[Half Fast]

And the hits just keep on a comin'

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/faa-opens-new-boeing-inquiry-after-jet-maker-says-it-may-have-missed-some-787-inspections-39e1b028?mod=business_lead_pos2

Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe

The FAA has opened a new investigation into a potential manufacturing quality lapse on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and whether inspection records were falsified.

www.seattletimes.com

https://archive.ph/NBvqF

Can you imagine how it must feel to be an astronaut strapped into a Boeing spacecraft this evening after seeing this story today?