[HN Gopher] Alaska Airlines Plane Appears to Have Left Boeing Fa...
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       Alaska Airlines Plane Appears to Have Left Boeing Factory Without
       Critical Bolts
        
       Author : wyldfire
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2024-01-29 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.wsj.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wsj.com)
        
       | nullindividual wrote:
       | https://archive.is/Xaa2z
        
       | jayknight wrote:
       | Brian from Real Engineering thinks[1] a likely culprit is that
       | the company that makes the fuselage doesn't completely secure the
       | door plugs because they usually get removed to build out the
       | interior of the plane according to the customer's desires. If
       | Boeing actually didn't take the plugs out for that purpose, it's
       | possible that there was a miscommunication that that was the
       | case, or a missed step in the procedure documents that those need
       | to be fully secured even if they were never removed.
       | 
       | [1] https://youtu.be/hhT4M0UjJcg (that part starts around 3:45)
        
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