After a door panel came loose on a Boeing 737 Max aircraft in January, the company was subject to a federal safety inspection. It hasn’t gone well.

Boeing is having a rough time of it right now, with parts falling off its planes left, right and center. Just last week, a wheel came loose and smashed through a car, and earlier this year the door from a 737 Max aircraft broke off mid-flight. That mid-air disaster sparked an audit from the Federal Aviation Administration, which has gone far from well.

  • skilltheamps@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    How does this part (which is what the headline refers to and presumably the most outrageous inspection finding)

    At one point during the examination, the air-safety agency observed mechanics at Spirit using a hotel key card to check a door seal […]. In another instance, the F.A.A. saw Spirit mechanics apply liquid Dawn soap to a door seal “as lubricant in the fit-up process,” according to the document. The door seal was then cleaned with a wet cheesecloth

    have anything to do with the opening of the article

    Just last week, a wheel came loose and smashed through a car, and earlier this year the door from a 737 Max aircraft broke off mid-flight

    ???

    The article misses the whole point, which is that the audit did not uncover the sources of these incidents.

    • solrize@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      The part about the crappy QA process explains why the delivered planes keep having problems.

      • skilltheamps@feddit.de
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        8 months ago

        Not to me. Absence of QA allows faulty parts to make it into a plane, it does not explain why there are faults in the first place. For doors and wheels popping off there have to be either lethal part design mistakes, parts made from play doh instead of aluminium/steel, or the people on the assembly line throwing fasteners in the bin instead of putting them on. It’s not like a door pops of because its seal touched soap once and somebody poked an unverified piece of plastic at it. Especially in aviation, where you need to have redundancies.