The US is investigating if Boeing ensured a part that blew off a jet was made to design standards::The Federal Aviation Administration said that the investigation is focusing on plugs on Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners.
Of course it worked to design standards. The problem is just that the design requirements were “costs the least money” instead of “acts as a functional and safe airplane part.”
"One of the employees at Spirit AeroSystems, which reportedly manufactured the door plug that blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight over Portland, Oregon, allegedly told company officials about an “excessive amount of defects,” according to the federal complaint and corresponding internal corporate documents reviewed by us.
According to the court documents, the employee told a colleague that “he believed it was just a matter of time until a major defect escaped to a customer."
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/alaska-airlines-boeing-parts-malfunction-workers-spirit-aerosystems
part that blew off a jet
I blew off a Jet once. Well… he was from New York and owned a basketball, so probably a Jet.
Can’t wait to see the air crash investigations episode on this
When 60 minutes returns, we’ll talk to engineer Graham Register who had only one job that year…to figure out how to set up the rapid depressurization system RDS and the RDS button documentation…
Skeptical of how throughout this will be since Boeing and government regulatory bodies have quite a large crossover but glad it’s happening and hope it’s transparent enough to ease doubts.
No one died right? Right? I’m scared looking at the seats position, looks like someone got sucked out
The place next to the door was unoccupied, the incident (fortunately) also happened while the fasten seatbelts lights were still on.
A couple of mobile phones got sucked out but no human.
Good to note that the mobile phones survived as well
Nope there was a kid sitting there who lost his shirt or something. True luck or what?
