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Originally Posted by Lizap
Agreed. There has been one problem after another with this aircraft. We will avoid flying it, if possible.
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You two are in good company. There have been multiple former Boeing employees who have come out to publicly state that they wouldn't fly on a MAX or allow their families to fly on the MAX.
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...-panel-blowout
And the one complaint from Jacobsen in the above article - “ 'Instead of fixing one problem at a time and then waiting for the next one, fix all of them', Jacobsen said.
He compared it to playing whack-a-mole, waiting for the next problem to pop up".
Boeing doesn't fix problems with the design or manufacturing - until after they become acute problems in service. And then they focus only on fixing that one problem. Like now, after the door plug blew out - that's believed to have resulted from a manufacturing or installation fault. <rhetorical questions on> But shouldn't quality inspections and testing have caught that? Maybe Boeing should try to do a more thorough job of inspecting and testing their planes? Yes, that would actually cost money, but perhaps the safety of the flying public is worth it? </rhetorical questions off>
So you know what Boeing is going to do now? They're going to try to do a more thorough job of inspection and testing. But urr,
only for door plugs. Because that's the only piece that fell off, recently. Kind of like playing whack-a-mole, isn't it?
One thing that Boeing executives can certainly take pride in, is that they have never allowed one single day or one single dollar to be spent by their company, that wasn't absolutely unavoidable. Or as Jacobsen put it: “For the last 20 years, they’ve gone in this continual direction of towards financial engineering instead of technical engineering,”
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