from wikipedia:
The Boeing 787, or Dreamliner, is a mid-sized passenger airliner currently under development by Boeing Commercial Airplanes and scheduled to enter service in 2008. It will carry between 200 and 350 passengers depending on the seating configuration, and be more fuel-efficient than earlier airliners. In addition, it will be the first major airliner to use composite material in the majority of its construction.
Features
* Twin aisle seating. * Cruise speed: 0.85 Mach (903 km/h or 561 mph at altitude) * Range of 8,500 nautical miles (15,700 km), enough to cover the Los Angeles to London or New York to Tokyo routes. * Construction materials (by weight): 61 % composite, 20 % aluminum, 11 % titanium, 8 % steel. Composite materials are significantly lighter and stronger than traditional aircraft materials, making the 787 a very light aircraft for its capabilities. By volume, the 787 will be 80 % composite. * The 787 production line will be able to finish an aircraft in as little as three days, compared to 11 days for the 737. * Larger windows than any other civil air transport, with a higher eye level, so passengers can see the horizon, with liquid crystal display (LCD)-based "auto-dimming" to reduce cabin glare and maintain transparency. * Light-emitting diode (LED) cabin lighting will be used instead of fluorescent tubes. * Cabin air provided by electrically driven compressors (no engine bleed air). * A version of Ethernet (AFDX) will be used to transmit data between the flight deck and aircraft systems. * Bleedless turbofans, allowing elimination of superheated air conduits normally used for de-icing, aircraft power, and other functions. These systems are to be replaced with an all-electrical system. * Higher humidity in the passenger cabin because of the use of composites (which don't corrode). * The internal pressure will be increased, to the equivalent of 6000 feet (1800 m) altitude versus 8000 (2400 m) on conventional aircraft. This will significantly improve passenger comfort.
more pics here, including some very wacky retrofuturistic interior design concepts that i'm sure got nixed in the end.
like this:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/7e7/images/k62869.jpg
― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 16 July 2005 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 16 July 2005 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.smarttravelasia.com/AirbusVsBoeing.htm
― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 16 July 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 16 July 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 16 July 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
The Dreamliner looks gorgeous. I'm looking forward to it. Although I have to say that name is pretty lame. I prefer the simplicity of 787.
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Thermo, on BA in Business class, every other seat faces backwards. I don't know of any other airline with backwards seats, though. Supposedly facing backwards is safer if you crash on the runway...
― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost: the 757 >>>>>>>> any other boeing aircraft in commercial use.
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
This plane is smaller than the 747.
The best Boeing is the 777, me thinks.
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link
probably not.
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― aqua teen hongro force (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryan_d, Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Will the future of commercial air travel be point-to-point on medium-sized, highly efficient airplanes (let's hope so), or hub-to-hub on massive, economy-of-scale utilizing planes (let's hope not)?
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:23 (eighteen years ago) link
The A380 is pretty efficient, as planes go, as well, however that efficiency does depend on them being fully loaded, that goes for all planes.
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link
The 787 is Boeing's all new replacement for the 757/767 series of smaller long distance planes. In response to the efficiency games, Airbus has put out a spoiler plane in the form of the A350 derivative (90% new design though) of the A330. Basically it comes from two different views of where air travel is going.
The dreamliner is a point to point airliner, ideal for smaller loading from smaller airports, it could easily be the spring board for inter-continental budget airlines, if it is as efficient as claimed.
The A350 is less radical than the dreamliner, but still a very advanced aircraft with heavy use of composites and should have comparable fuel economies with the 787 mainly through cramming in a few extra seats.
The A380 is about maximising capacity on congested routes from congested airports, Europe-East Coast, Tokyo-Osaka, although it's also been taken by Airlines such as Emirates and Singapore who are locked into hubs in tiny nation states and need to maximise number of seats on planes. You better beleive that someone is going to cram 800 seats on one of these things for the Tokyo Osaka run.
If the A380 is a success then Boeing can always revive it's 747-800 stretched version of the 747.
They'll be space for both in the market as they are going after different niches.
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:45 (eighteen years ago) link
here's hoping. the market is definitely there for that. north america -> asia will do outstandingly well.
― jody heatherton (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Someone needs to be working on powering these planes on vegetable oil/ethanol blends.
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link
lol
― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 09:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jody heatherton (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 July 2005 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link
why not just stay on yr continent, then you can use the best ever form of transport: train.
― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Clearly the best advancement in international transport would be to build superfast elevators through the center of the Earth. Something like a pneumatic tube.
http://zapatopi.net/pneumatic/beachsub2.jpg
http://zapatopi.net/pneumatic/beachsub.jpg
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.uboatarchive.net/JtOpsCtr11.jpgCraig keeps a close eyehttp://www.uboatarchive.net/JtOpsCtr6.jpgJenny updates the big chart
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
its often said that safety occupies this top spot, but it seems to actually occupy maybe....10th place, priority-wise?
― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― sgs (sgs), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 17 July 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
do you want to turn off The Medusa Touch suicide pilot option yes/no?
― calzino, Monday, 18 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
it's incredibly horrifying and i mean horrifying.
― Hunt3r, Monday, 18 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
boeing seems cool
Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air didn't pay extra for Boeing's "upgrades" on communications, navigation, and safety features, so Boeing didn't warn them that the planes were prone to sensor malfunctions that would send them crashing into the ground. https://t.co/2Nvka4tNVI— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) March 21, 2019
On a plane that was prone misreading the angle of attack (and then overcorrecting), Boeing charged extra for the "angle of attack indicator" and the "disagree light"—features which "could have helped the pilots detect any erroneous readings." pic.twitter.com/DclKa8pOYo— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) March 21, 2019
And don't think for a second that this was a developing world issue. Major U.S. airlines also didn't buy these safety "upgrade" features, as they were not required by the F.A.A. pic.twitter.com/EhR21vuQMD— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) March 21, 2019
Boeing even charges extra for back-up fire extinguishers, despite the fact that "a single extinguishing system may not be enough to put out flames that spread rapidly through the plane." And you have no way of knowing which safety features your airline has bought. pic.twitter.com/8j4lV51FXM— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) March 21, 2019
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 March 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
this all stinks of engineering/business management hell. I wonder how the AoA sensors can be so bad. They look pretty "dumb", which usually means they'd be more robust than a wiimote.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 March 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
i mean call me old-fashioned but i just don't think paid-for downloadable content should be a business model which should be applied to air safety
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 March 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
new board description ^
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 March 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
please don't put the weird EA-hating tantrum videogame lords upset that they have to pay for extra character outfits while also unable to resist doing so on the same level as this issue. this involves some hardware and has better, older analogues.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 March 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
then again, you may have just been playing off my wiimote comment. apologies.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 March 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
naw i was totally trying to gamergate boeing
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 March 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
the FAA should drag the gamergate lords away from their current john wick number trailer, call the flight simulator a videogame, and enjoy how they badger boeing into a future clean safety record.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 March 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
horse armour fine whatever
paid DLC so my plane doesn't crash I draw the line
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Friday, 22 March 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
i am not aviation engineer, but "this plane could try to crash itself" seems... bad?― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 March 2019 15:31 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
this is so incredibly fucked
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Friday, 22 March 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
that comment is actually bad because the same system that can crash the plan can potentially save the plane in some situations. it exists for a reason. the auto-pilot, -stabilization, -etc of aircraft is coupled to the evolution of giant aircraft, and you want those systems to exist the same way you want your car to be capable of 100 mph on flat land because that's a much lower speed going up a hill.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 March 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
The future is crowdfunded/upgradable DLC safety features during the flight booking process.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 22 March 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
i had the fun of flying on one of these this afternoon! i, uh, wasn't thrilled about it. looked like about half the southwest planes at lax were 737 maxes.― circles, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 8:49 PM (one week ago)
― circles, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 8:49 PM (one week ago)
probably an 737-800. Can confirm all the SWA 737 MAX flights in/out of LAX were cancelled one week ago.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 22 March 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
This and the other comments about sensor triple redundancy in the article best sum up the engineering problems with the plane. The problems are more fundamental than "dumb planes are safer".
As R. John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told me in a March 28 interview,"As I understand it, at high angles of attack the Nacelles -- which are the tube shaped structures around the fans -- create aerodynamic lift. Because the engines are further forward, the lift tends to push the nose up -- causing the angle of attack to increase further. This reinforces itself and results in a pitch-up tendency which if not corrected can result in a stall. This is called an unstable or divergent condition. It should be noted that many high performance aircraft have this tendency but it is not acceptable in transport category aircraft where there is a requirement that the aircraft is stable and returns to a steady condition if no forces are applied to the controls."
"As I understand it, at high angles of attack the Nacelles -- which are the tube shaped structures around the fans -- create aerodynamic lift. Because the engines are further forward, the lift tends to push the nose up -- causing the angle of attack to increase further. This reinforces itself and results in a pitch-up tendency which if not corrected can result in a stall. This is called an unstable or divergent condition. It should be noted that many high performance aircraft have this tendency but it is not acceptable in transport category aircraft where there is a requirement that the aircraft is stable and returns to a steady condition if no forces are applied to the controls."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/04/02/mit-expert-highlights-divergent-condition-caused-by-737-max-engine-placement
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
got off a 737-800 a few hours ago and my knees are still feeling it. screw safety, what these things need is 3 more inches of legroom
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
I feel your pain as a 6'4" guy. Legroom is driven by the airlines' seating configuration, not the manufacturer. Our discomfort is another row or two of ticket revenue. NPR has an article that suggests nothing will change. Would like to see officials load their own families on a 90-second evac trial, and then praise seating arrangements.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
Note to self - fly airbus
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190403/p2g/00m/0bu/002000c
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 5 April 2019 07:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html
Not great.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 20 April 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer
not great.
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
Boeing Has So Many Grounded 737 Max Planes Waiting to Be Fixed They're Parking Them in the Employee Parking Lot
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
In a bit of good news, one company is interested in buying quite a few of them.
Boeing on Tuesday won its first order for 737 Max planes since the jets were grounded worldwide in March after two fatal crashes. The vote of confidence from British Airways’ parent sent shares of the manufacturer sharply higher.International Consolidated Airlines Group, or IAG, signed a letter of intent at the Paris Air Show to order 200 Boeing 737 Max planes.
International Consolidated Airlines Group, or IAG, signed a letter of intent at the Paris Air Show to order 200 Boeing 737 Max planes.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/british-airways-parent-places-first-new-order-for-boeing-737-max-since-grounding.html
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
For Seattle ilxors, you can view the parking lot in the jalopnik article from the south park bridge. It’s amazing, maybe 30 of them sitting along the river, iceland air and thai smile and turkish and so many others i don’t recognize
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
Boeing 737 MAX 8 Likely Grounded for Rest of 2019 After New Concerns Raised
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Sunday, 30 June 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Some of the language in that article is a maybe a little bit hyperbolic.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
This is a bit more measured, Boeing still don't come out of it very well at all:
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/faa-and-boeing-initially-disagreed-on-severity-of-catastrophic-737-max-software-glitch/
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 1 July 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-crashes.html
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 21 September 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
That’s a good read.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 September 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
Although it doesn’t really offer any solutions- just a very well researched and well written description of the problem. I’m mildly suspicious of the expert graybeards from central casting that he quotes throughout the piece, because it all seems a little one-sided, but then again the Indonesian and Ethiopian crews that are still around to talk are apparently not allowed to.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
Boeing pilots' messages on 737 MAX safety raise new questions
― Book Doula (sleeve), Sunday, 20 October 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/john-barnett-on-why-he-wont-fly-on-a-boeing-787-dreamliner/
What is your own personal practice on flying Boeing aircraft now?“When I worked on the 747, the 767, the 777 in Everett, those are beautiful planes. And the people there fully understood what it took to build a safe and airworthy aircraft. I hate to throw the entire label over the whole product line. But as far as the 787, I would change flights before I would fly a 787. I’ve told my family — please don’t fly a 787. Fly something else. Try to get a different ticket. I want the people to know what they are riding on.”
“When I worked on the 747, the 767, the 777 in Everett, those are beautiful planes. And the people there fully understood what it took to build a safe and airworthy aircraft. I hate to throw the entire label over the whole product line. But as far as the 787, I would change flights before I would fly a 787. I’ve told my family — please don’t fly a 787. Fly something else. Try to get a different ticket. I want the people to know what they are riding on.”
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a30470973/boeing-737-max-employees-emails/I don’t want to read this. I’m just posting it here
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 January 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
"This airplane is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys.”
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
But the the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee provided excerpts of those messages to Bloomberg News that un-redacted the Indonesian carrier’s name.“Now friggin Lion Air might need a sim to fly the MAX, and maybe because of their own stupidity. I’m scrambling trying to figure out how to unscrew this now! idiots,” one Boeing employee wrote in June 2017 text messages obtained by the company and released by the House committee.In response, a Boeing colleague replied: “WHAT THE F%$&!!!! But their sister airline is already flying it!” That was an apparent reference to Malindo Air, the Malaysian-based carrier that was the first to fly the Max commercially.
“Now friggin Lion Air might need a sim to fly the MAX, and maybe because of their own stupidity. I’m scrambling trying to figure out how to unscrew this now! idiots,” one Boeing employee wrote in June 2017 text messages obtained by the company and released by the House committee.
In response, a Boeing colleague replied: “WHAT THE F%$&!!!! But their sister airline is already flying it!” That was an apparent reference to Malindo Air, the Malaysian-based carrier that was the first to fly the Max commercially.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-14/lion-air-idiots-sought-more-max-training-boeing-thwarted-it
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
is there anyway to check (in advance of booking) which type of aircraft will be used on your flight? would not fancy going on one of these for say, oooooh, about 10 years?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/9/22165956/boeing-737-max-flight-brazil-gol-airlines
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
Gol Airlines told the publication it plans to use the 737 Max in regular service starting later this month, and passengers who don’t want to fly on the plane will be able to exchange their tickets.
all airlines need to do this imo
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
You can go to FlightAware.com and enter your flight # which will give you a lot of data about that flight; below the flight map you'll see a log of scheduled flights and what aircraft will be used, plus a record of what aircraft were used in previous flights.
Some airlines' websites, e.g. JetBlue's, tell you the aircraft used for each flight when you go there to do your booking. I wouldn't say they're accurate 100% of the time but I think they generally are.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
Another 737 gone missing after taking off from jakarta
― nob lacks, noirish (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 January 2021 11:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-not-spirit-mis-installed-piece-that-blew-off-alaska-max-9-jet/
The fuselage panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet earlier this month was removed for repair then reinstalled improperly by Boeing mechanics on the Renton final assembly line, a person familiar with the details of the work told The Seattle Times.If verified by the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, this would leave Boeing primarily at fault for the accident, rather than its supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which originally installed the panel into the 737 MAX 9 fuselage in Wichita, Kan.That panel, a door plug used to seal a hole in the fuselage sometimes used to accommodate an emergency exit, blew out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 as it climbed out of Portland on Jan. 5. The hair-raising incident drew fresh and sharp criticism of Boeing’s quality control systems and safety culture, which has been under the microscope since two fatal 737 MAX crashes five years ago.Last week, a different person — an anonymous whistleblower who appears to have access to Boeing’s manufacturing records of the work done assembling the specific Alaska Airlines jet that suffered the blowout — on an aviation website separately provided many additional details about how the door plug came to be removed and then mis-installed.
If verified by the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, this would leave Boeing primarily at fault for the accident, rather than its supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which originally installed the panel into the 737 MAX 9 fuselage in Wichita, Kan.
That panel, a door plug used to seal a hole in the fuselage sometimes used to accommodate an emergency exit, blew out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 as it climbed out of Portland on Jan. 5. The hair-raising incident drew fresh and sharp criticism of Boeing’s quality control systems and safety culture, which has been under the microscope since two fatal 737 MAX crashes five years ago.
Last week, a different person — an anonymous whistleblower who appears to have access to Boeing’s manufacturing records of the work done assembling the specific Alaska Airlines jet that suffered the blowout — on an aviation website separately provided many additional details about how the door plug came to be removed and then mis-installed.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 January 2024 00:32 (two months ago) link
KAYAK Lets Users Filter Out Boeing 737 Max 9 Flights After Door Blows Off Plane
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 January 2024 00:33 (two months ago) link
oof
― dead precedents (sleeve), Friday, 26 January 2024 00:48 (two months ago) link
Nationalize Boeing
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 January 2024 01:15 (two months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/delta-air-lines-plane-nose-wheel-falls-off
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 26 January 2024 08:34 (two months ago) link
More concerns as Alaska Airlines flight arrives at PDX gate with open cargo doorhttps://www.koin.com/news/alaska-airlines-safety-concerns-cargo-door-pictures-portland/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 9 March 2024 05:05 (one month ago) link
o_0
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:20 (one month ago) link
DamnAlso this today https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/03/11/at-least-50-injured-on-latam-airlines-boeing-787-after-technical-problem-causes-sudden-drop-in-altitude/
― calstars, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:50 (one month ago) link
Jon Oliver did a good piece on them last week, the gist of it is their only priority right now is shareholder value
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 00:07 (one month ago) link
I know nothing about financing, stocks, etc. But it seems to me that if I owned a business that I really cared about, I would never take it public.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 11:50 (one month ago) link
Really good article that sums up Barnett's (the now dead whistleblower) complaints.
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
― just like Christopher Wray said (brownie), Friday, 29 March 2024 14:01 (three weeks ago) link