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Boeing 737 Max engine issue will take up to a year to fix, embattled company reveals
NY Post ^ | Mar 16, 2024 | Olivia Land

Posted on 03/18/2024 12:10:46 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Boeing will take up to a year to repair an engine issue on all its beleaguered 737 Max jets, which will delay the certification of its 737 Max 7s and Max 10s.

Boeing has acquired a team of experts to “quickly drive forward a safe and compliant solution” to a glitch that could cause the 737 Max anti-ice system to overheat and damage the engine, the corporation wrote in response to questions from Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois), according to CBS News.

Boeing officials previously said they would have the issue fixed within nine to 12 months, the outlet noted.

“Small changes made to the engine inlet can change the behavior of the air as it enters the engine, impacting engine performance,” the embattled company explained.

“The solution selection process for the potential overheating issue will require a full understanding of safety and compliance impacts on all systems,” Boeing added.

Although the specific issue has never occurred in-flight, the worst-case scenario could cause components to break off the airplane, CBS reported.

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1 posted on 03/18/2024 12:10:46 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Used to be “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going!”. Not so much anymore.


2 posted on 03/18/2024 12:11:53 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

There is a poster here who said we shouldn’t be talking down boeing. The netflix piece was crap and all these issues were crap. Wonder if he still holds this view?


3 posted on 03/18/2024 12:14:57 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They should sell these things to the Iranians and North Koreans and be done with them.


4 posted on 03/18/2024 12:15:46 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Somebody here on FR was defending the 737 MAX recently - yet here we are with yet another issue.


5 posted on 03/18/2024 12:17:02 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Will the new all electric engine jumbo jets be ready by then?
Hope the projected and predicted range for the EV charge will be sort of somewhat accurate.
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6 posted on 03/18/2024 12:19:23 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
It's not a glitch, it was a design error on the part of the engine builder CFM.

If you taxi around all the time with the engine anti-ice turned on, even on 90 degree summer days, the heat will eventually cause the composite engine inlet faring to disintegrate and pieces could be ingested into the engine. But it takes a very long time of abuse of the engine anti-ice system for this to happen.

The short term solution is don't turn on engine anti-ice when it's not needed, like the flight manual says.

The long term solution is to add sensors to the engine cowls to detect icing conditions, and to turn off the engine anti-ice heat when it is not needed.

7 posted on 03/18/2024 12:19:24 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

According to Agenda 2030 we will not be allowed to fly after 2030 anyway. We will be eating bugs and snakes. Vote Trump 2024 or this is your fate. Look it up

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8 posted on 03/18/2024 12:20:25 PM PDT by Singermom
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You know, someone is doing a hit job on Boeing and call them manufacturing issues, but I wonder if they are more maintenance issues. In the military, we found out you must have good maintenance to keep the birds flying, regardless of who made them. I wonder with all the DEI bullsh*t if it isn’t just lousy mechanics that are poorly trained in many of those issues. For instance, we had a couple of crashes of F-4’s because some embecile had slid his intake cover down into the intake while he was working on the plane. When the pilot kicked in his burners, the engines blew up..just sayin’. As usual, our dishonest reporters really don’t want to know what the issues are.


9 posted on 03/18/2024 12:21:00 PM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: hillarys cankles

You know, someone is doing a hit job on Boeing and call them manufacturing issues, but I wonder if they are more maintenance issues. In the military, we found out you must have good maintenance to keep the birds flying, regardless of who made them. I wonder with all the DEI bullsh*t if it isn’t just lousy mechanics that are poorly trained in many of those issues. For instance, we had a couple of crashes of F-4’s because some embecile had slid his intake cover down into the intake while he was working on the plane. When the pilot kicked in his burners, the engines blew up..just sayin’. As usual, our dishonest reporters really don’t want to know what the issues are.


10 posted on 03/18/2024 12:21:51 PM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“...the worst-case scenario could cause components to break off the airplane...”

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11 posted on 03/18/2024 12:24:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: TheBattman

The basic 737 has been a long trusted workhorse. This max version unfortunately was an example of Boeing reengineering it as a larger sized aircraft. That way money was saved compared to designing a new plane from scratch. This cutting corners approach may now imperil the entire company There’s a lesson in all this somewhere.


12 posted on 03/18/2024 12:24:55 PM PDT by xp38
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“The solution selection process ...”

That’s what it’s all about!


13 posted on 03/18/2024 12:27:05 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This proves DEI needs to D-I-E a slow painful death.


14 posted on 03/18/2024 12:27:23 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: hillarys cankles

Someone in Boeing ‘lowered’ hiring stanards , employees are saying this is why these things are happening.


15 posted on 03/18/2024 12:28:29 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: xp38

That way money was saved compared to designing a new plane from scratch. This cutting corners approach may now imperil the entire company There’s a lesson in all this somewhere.

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It’s not just the stupidity of the 737 MAX and lack of clean sheet design. Why are not nuts and bolts being installed and torqued? That’s not maintenance.


16 posted on 03/18/2024 12:29:46 PM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
“Boeing has acquired a team of experts”

Wanna bet there are no DEI commissars involved in the team member selection process this time?

17 posted on 03/18/2024 12:30:29 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: rktman

“Although the specific issue has never occurred in-flight.”

The same folks wanting to bash Boeing are mostly the same people who cowered during COVID.

What is the mortality rate of flying a Boeing jet????

Live Passengers/Successful flights versus DEAD/Crashes?

Is it 99%+++?

What is the mortality rate for the jab?


18 posted on 03/18/2024 12:30:33 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: hillarys cankles

“There is a poster here who said we shouldn’t be talking down boeing.”

Don’t know about that but wonder if other plane builders’ problems are not being as much publicized.


19 posted on 03/18/2024 12:32:19 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: LeonardFMason

“What is the mortality rate for the jab?”

Outside of your point but even if an accurate number is known, that data will never, and I mean NEVER be revealed.

Why? Because I suspect it’s far far more than we are being told.


20 posted on 03/18/2024 12:37:48 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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