Alaska Airlines CEO: We found “many” loose bolts on our Max 9 planes following near-disaster — “My demand on Boeing is what are they going to do to improve their quality programs in-house.”::The CEO of Alaska Airlines said new inspections of the carrier’s Boeing 737 Max 9 planes revealed that “many” of the aircraft were found to have loose bolts.
Boeing will splash around some more bribe money and do absolutely nothing.
Yeah, I hate to be morbidly pessimistic, but this is an American private company we’re talking about: I don’t think anything will be done until people die
Maybe build high speed rail instead of planes, and forget about Boeing? Yes, trains need quality control, too, but not to the same level as planes.
Fuck Boeing
Well nothing, few months pass by and they will be back grinding for as much money as possible
Yep. You cannot deny that Boeing is huge and basically a necessity on many levels. They will clean up their act, which is prudent, but this will all be behind us soon.
They will
clean upsweep theiract under the carpet,which is prudent, butthis will all be behind us soon.This is how I felt about Boeing the first couple times but at this point my trust is shattered. Can’t say I’ll ever fly on one again tbh.
Yep. I flew on a Max right before they were grounded the first time after all those people died, and had just begun to trust them again when this all happened. I changed my upcoming flight to Airbus even though it was more expensive because they were going to use a Max. As an extra, I ended up on the largest passenger jet in service, which is pretty cool.
It’s Alaska Airlines. Isn’t this plane likely 15+ years old? Is Boeing directly involved in maintenance for the lifetime of the plane? Or, is this on Alaska Airlines, and they are shamelessly scapegoating because it’s opportunistic to kick Boeing lately?
The MAX series didn’t go on its first flight with a customer until 2017. These are practically brand new planes.
The one that ripped open while flying was only 3 months old.
The incident airplane was only 3 months out of the factory.
Oh, that’s pretty damning then. Just throwing half-assed planes out the door.
Yea this feels like Alaska trying to get ahead of bad press
