Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 10 months agoMy assumption is that the 737 Max is simply a fundamentally unsafe and unsound design.
I’m sure within 15 years they’ll complete the final retrofit to make it safe and sound, and in the end, it will end up costing 300% of what a new design would have.
But, it’ll actually work out for Boeing executives and shareholders, so it will be taught to future MBA student as a success story about the heroic and stoic leadership that generated record profits for the low cost of a few hundred lives.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Most of the fuselage should be insanely similar to other 737 models. I can’t imagine how someone fucked up badly enough to lose a door plug,
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That’s the problem… Reusing a 50-year-old design, with new engines and other technology that should have been used with a new fuselage design…
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I mean I’d argue it’s only 30 years since NG, but that’s a different argument. It’s not like it isn’t a proven airframe that still goes through continual process improvements. They certainly could have done things differently, but way more time and cost.
I don’t think they know the exact cause and they grounded them out of an excess of caution. I’m going to guess a process got bought off that wasn’t complete. That’s the kind of thing that’s engineered to not fall off if it’s properly installed.
We’ll see how things pan out in the next few days.