What Boeing’s Door-Plug Debacle Says About the Future of Aviation Safety
What Boeing’s Door-Plug Debacle Says About the Future of Aviation Safety
For a flight to be imperiled by a simple and preventable manufacturing or maintenance error is an anomaly with ominous implications.
Securing bolts properly is about the lowest-hanging fruit of high-reliability engineering.
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Great article. The most concerning is that Boeing has become yet another enshittified company, chasing profit too hard over all else, and they are going to kill people with their decisions.
“The fact that the mistake was made at all, however, suggests an organization that is decreasingly inclined, or able, to make the kinds of costly, counterintuitive, and difficult-to-justify choices on which it built its exemplary history of reliability. These choices always pertain to marginal, almost negligible, concerns — simply because reliability at high altitudes is all about the margins — so their consequences manifest slowly. But their effects are cumulative and inexorable. “
They already killed a lot of people with the MCAS fiasco.
Is that the same or different from the only putting on one pitot tube fiasco? Or the rollover issue that downed planes randomly around 9/11 and everyone thought we were under attack again? I'm losing track at this point.
There are some excellent documentaries about the 787 and how the company got there