[HN Gopher] Boeing faces new safety alert over earlier generatio...
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Boeing faces new safety alert over earlier generation of 737s
Author : LinuxBender
Score : 38 points
Date : 2024-01-22 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| bedobi wrote:
| at this point I'm just not flying Boeing anymore, period
|
| and no, I don't want to know about similar problems with Airbus,
| please leave me in blissful ignorance
| hedgehog wrote:
| The risk of being affected by this is so small as to be
| insignificant compared to the many likelier causes of death and
| injury that you can also do much more about.
| simion314 wrote:
| So? Let's think of a story, say there are 2 companies that
| make Orange juice A and B, and we have evidence that in some
| of company A juice some rat excrement was found a few years
| back , they promised to fix it but this month again we found
| evidence in a bottle of rat excrement.
|
| And your reply sounds like, the chance of you dying from this
| is lover then if you eat a delicious hamburger so you should
| continue buying from company A even if you know that they do
| not took the rat problem serious and probably if we would
| check all the bottles of juice from A and do deep scan we
| would find much more problems.
|
| If you continue to give money to A why would they hire back
| the QA people they fired before so they can get giant
| bonuses.
|
| IMO it is proven that Boeing does not care about your safety,
| they just asked for an exception for a safety requirement,
| putting the passanger safety responsibility on pilots
| training and memory because fixing the issue the proper way
| would cost time and money and that is more important then
| safety. https://simpleflying.com/boeing-requests-
| boeing-737-max-7-ce...
| hedgehog wrote:
| I live in the US and drink orange juice about once a year
| so it's not worth even thinking about whether there might
| be a safety differential between brands, it'll work itself
| out. On the other hand diet, sleep, exercise, driving
| habits, exposure to infectious disease (mostly COVID right
| now), etc, all have significant impact on odds of getting
| sick, injured, or dying.
| weaksauce wrote:
| > IMO it is proven that Boeing does not care about your
| safety, they just asked for an exception for a safety
| requirement, putting the passanger safety responsibility on
| pilots training and memory because fixing the issue the
| proper way would cost time and money and that is more
| important then safety
|
| That's a rather uncharitable take on what they are asking
| for which is a temporary reprieve over a pretty minor risk.
|
| > Boeing states it is working on a "long-term solution" for
| the problem, which would be rolled out across the entire
| global Boeing 737 MAX fleet. The FAA confirmed this,
| stating that Boeing is looking at design changes.
| jlmorton wrote:
| This is an example of how attention from the media causes us to
| vastly overweight the significance of a negative event.
|
| The 737-900 has never had an incident. We found some loose
| bolts on a door plug that shares a design with the 737 MAX-9,
| which has had two major incidents.
|
| This is out of something like ~5 million flight cycles for
| these aircraft types.
|
| I don't necessarily mean to defend Boeing. In the case of the
| door plug, it seems they chose an inferior door plug design
| (which plugs from the outside, resisting pressure, rather than
| from the inside, being pressed closed by it) in order to save a
| revenue seat and a common fuselage.
|
| Nevertheless, it's just not anything you need to personally
| worry over.
| pwarner wrote:
| Often the equivalent Airbus plane is more comfortable as well.
| Especially A320 vs 737, which has to be the most common for
| most folks. Of course operators control the leg room for
| example, but the width of the fuselage is down to the
| manufacturer.
|
| https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-vs-airbus-a320/
|
| > One discernable difference when it comes to passenger comfort
| and experience is the width of the cabin. The Airbus A320 has a
| wider cabin by seven inches than the Boeing 737. When measured
| in terms of personal space, an economy seat on a Delta Air
| Lines Airbus A320 measures 18 inches, whereas a seat on the
| same carrier's 737s measures 17.3 inches.
| barbazoo wrote:
| Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087237
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