[DriverDaily]

> nobody seems to care?

Clearly people care. They are literally checking every bolt for proper torque. When they found a few undertorque bolts it becomes a national news, it gets shared so much it ended up on Hacker News, and you cared enough to comment.

[throwway120385]

I'll never consider this plane safe unless Boeing fixes the process the yielded these systemic quality problems.

[DriverDaily]

So your assesment of how safe the plane is doesn't depend on anything except Boeing's process? For example, you don't care about the number of accidents per operating hours?

[com]

But that is highly likely to be a trailing indicator. Some things like door plug blowouts apparently happen a few months after poor manufacturing processes occur, the question is how long do loose screws, cable frictions, or incorrectly bored holes in pressure bulkheads take to manifest?

It seems to me that we’re only at the start of statistical changes to the 737’s historic accident to operating hours ratio.

Do I want to be an unexpected data point or death and injury there? Not so much. A320-series or 737NGs for me for the foreseeable future I think, and those flights don’t generally cost a penny more.

[throwway120385]

Yeah it is. They have a huge manufacturing process problem and until they fix that they're just rolling the dice hoping the swiss cheese doesn't line up.

I'm probably going to switch airlines to one that has a majority-Airbus or 737NG fleet unless I hear about heads rolling at Spirit.