Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has "Enormous Volume Of Defects" Bolts On MAX 9 Weren't Installed - View from the Wing
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A reader at respected airline industry site Leeham News offered a comment that suggests they have access to Boeing’s internal quality control systems, and shares details of what they saw regarding the Boeing 737 MAX 9 flown by Alaska Airlines that had a door plug detach inflight, causing rapid decompression of the aircraft. The takeaway appears to be that outsourced plane components have so many problems when they show up at the production line that Boeing’s quality control staff can’t keep up with them all.

Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has “Enormous Volume Of Defects” Bolts On MAX 9 Weren’t Installed::A reader at respected airline industry site Leeham News offered a comment that suggests they have access to Boeing’s internal quality control systems, and shares details of what they saw regarding the Boeing 737 MAX 9 flown by Alaska Airlines that had a door plug detach inflight, causing rapid decompression of the aircraft. The takeaway appears to be that outsourced plane components have so many problems when they show up at the production line that Boeing’s quality control staff can’t keep up with them all.

    • Raxiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It was Mentor Pilot video on Boeing, he mentioned they had some fancy automated QA system they pissed a load of money up the wall on, and in the end they still had to spend just as much on rework and it was scrapped.
      I’ve no idea if they hired new QA people after, but even if they did it wouldn’t be the same people back, what with their “brilliant” idea of shedding expensive, experienced staff in Washington and replacing them with cheaper inexperienced hires in South Carolina