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After emerging from icy conditions into drier air they have to make sure they turn off the engine anti-ice system,
which heats the inner barrel of the engine pod so that ice doesn’t build up. If they fail to do so, the system can quickly overheat
the carbon composite material and damage the structural integrity of the engine pod.The problem is there’s no alert
or indication to the crew that the system needs to be turned off.
I see the MCAS debacle that cost 346 people their lives has taught Boeing basically nothing.
"Pilots flying the Max 8 and Max 9 have been warned to limit use of an anti-icing system to five minutes when flying in dry conditions. Otherwise, the FAA says, inlets around the engines could get too hot, and parts of the housing could break away and strike the plane, possibly breaking windows and causing rapid decompression.
That is what happened when an engine fan blade broke on an older 737 during a Southwest Airlines flight in 2018. A piece of loose engine housing struck and shattered a window, and a woman sitting next to the window was killed."
There is a recurring theme here - Boeing seems *exquisitely* sensitive to their bottom line, but passenger safety, not so much. They've already killed someone through this mechanism in recent years, but somehow they produce a new model that still has a problem there, and then they say to the FAA "Can't you just look the other way? Why do you have to enforce safety regulations?" Boeing still hasn’t fixed this problem on Max jets, so it’s asking for an exemption to safety rules: https://apnews.com/article/boeing-ex...418019e4e4874d
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How is it not when Boeing are asking the FAA to exempt their jet from a safety requirement?
OOps, I should have pointed out the part of the post.
That is what happened when an engine fan blade broke on an older 737 during a Southwest Airlines flight in 2018. A piece of loose engine housing struck and shattered a window, and a woman sitting next to the window was killed.
OOps, I should have pointed out the part of the post.
That is what happened when an engine fan blade broke on an older 737 during a Southwest Airlines flight in 2018. A piece of loose engine housing struck and shattered a window, and a woman sitting next to the window was killed.
Still not following how this is not a Boeing issue. It was not a Max issue at the time, but the plane was still a Boeing.
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