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by Pat_Murph 891 days ago
If it was only 1 isolated issue ok sure...

But there are now several serious safety issues. The 2 crashes killing hundreds in 2018. The quality issues with the manufacturing of the pressure bulkheads with "snowman" holes thst had to be fixed or the rudder bolts that thst hold the assembly to the fuselage that an employee noticed that weren't the same as the spec drawings?

There are probably more cases...

With the multiplication of these problems. It's obviously a systemic issue and a corporate culture that doesn't put as much importance on safety.

Ho and there's this one where Boeing is asking the FAA for a safety exemption so they can ship planes faster while they try and fix the problem...

https://fortune.com/2024/01/06/boeing-737-max-safety-exempti...

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I was going to say that Boeing had already gotten that exemption, but I was thinking about a different exemption:

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-max-10-certification-fli...