[HN Gopher] 'Cozy' relationship between Boeing and the US draws ...
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'Cozy' relationship between Boeing and the US draws scrutiny amid
737 MAX 9 mess
Author : pseudolus
Score : 45 points
Date : 2024-01-20 11:54 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| russfink wrote:
| After the Max 8 crashes and fixes, I believed the Max became the
| most scrutinized plane flying, and thus the safest. Now due to
| Alaska, I believe I am wrong. Airbus, I hope you're better - or
| at least that you're bad in non-critical ways.
| wkat4242 wrote:
| Airbus has many of the same flaws. Look at the pictures of the
| A350 paint from Qatar. It's not so much the paint flaking that
| bothers me, but the way Airbus went out of their way to dismiss
| Qatar airlines' concerns as irrelevant to safety.
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| When there's this much flaking it can't be considered non
| safety critical anymore. In many cases a rough undersurface was
| exposed and an airplane hull is much more efficient when
| smooth. Also some of the flakes will end up in the engines or
| sensors.
|
| Really that was not a good show from airbus.
| dakial1 wrote:
| The 2 first accidents made it clear that this version of the 737
| prioritized time-to-market over design (that's why it needed the
| MCAS solution, a software patch for a hardware shortcoming.)
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| Now this new incident with the Max 9 shows that they might have
| prioritized time-to-market (or cost) over production quality.
| This version seems to be doomed to have problems and I will avoid
| it for sure
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