• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Loose bolts indicate vibration, and that is a death knell for Boeing … because their engineers should have known how many bolts would be needed and the torque required to lock them in.

    Boeing will pay through the nose for this screw up.

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      10 months ago

      Nah, they’ll keep getting exceptions for the 737 max until they have the worst plane crash in history. Then something might be done and bigger changes might be made.

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        10 months ago

        Realistically, how much worse could they get? The disasters so far have only been limited by the number of people they can kill due to the plane’s capacity.

        Probably would have been different if they failed after taking off from New York or Chicago instead of Indonesia or Ethiopia, because, of course.

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          10 months ago

          I think a plane crashing into a populated city or neighborhood would up those numbers quite a lot though. And yeah, good point. I think another reason the 737 max issues haven’t been taken more seriously yet is because the two big accidents involved people from developing nations. Imagine if those planes were full of Americans.