United Airlines confirm inspections have found loose bolts on the 737 MAX 9

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[Delta 21]

Specifications call for “finger tight.”

[Telepathic Intruder]

I’ve flown on those twice, and hoped each time they had all the bugs worked out. Guess I was wrong.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nope. I think they unscrewed.

[blackdog]

I frequently had to fixed machines at Standard Pressed Steel, back in the early 80's. Every nut and bolt made were backed by serial number, destructive testing, microscopic thread angle analysis, freeze-thaw, boiling oil, shock and vibration analysis, corrosion susceptibility, and chemical composition. (Hardware going into space shuttles, cruise missiles, Navy Ships, Tanks, Planes, etc....)

In 1993, Clinton removed those kind of standards from most of those industries. His state department that took over weapons and delivery of same from the Pentagon, felt the costs exceeded reliability and safety value.

Those which run America's State Department are the most evil and corrupt bunch of thugs to ever roam free on this planet. Pure concentrated evil.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What is “5. QA penciled.”?

Did you mean QA was falsified? The way Biden falsifies everything about his life? The way that Claudine Gay falsified her research?

[fruser1]

So is torque for US planes specified in ft*lbs or N*m?

If ft*lbs, maybe a non-US worker presumed the number was in N*M. 1 ft*lb is a bit over 1.35 N*m, so if 1 ft*lb was specified and they torqued it 1 N*m it wouldn’t be tight enough.

[llevrok]

Paging W.Edwards Deming to the QC Office. Dr Deming, please contact via the house phone....

[woodbutcher1963]

Boeing gets all their torque from Harbor Freight.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[MayflowerMadam]

AA hires. Diversity is our strength.

[BipolarBob]

if it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They used a castle nut and cotter on the important joint. That loose nut is obviously not important at all. (jk)

Besides, that weak metal bracket just holds the coffee pot in the galley, so it’s not that important. (jk2)

[blackdog]

Stainless steel makes for terrible fasteners.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Or in-lb vs ft-lb. Off by a factor of 12.

Hey we crashed into Mars once because of the Imperial / Metric mix-up. (or did we miss Mars by a country mile?)

[gitmo]

LOL

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Back a few years ago one of the airlines had to get a flight crew from one place to another which would have been a four hour trip by car.

The plane they decided to stick these people on was already fully loaded as it was holiday time and so they kept the plane at the gate for two hours (this is a major expense) while they decided what to do. Their solution was to kick already seated, already late, passengers off the flight by force. This resulted in some really bad optics. But worse it showed that the airlines were staffed by morons.

Why do I bring this up? Because at the time reading this I decided that I would never fly this airline because they were staffed by nitwits. I could not trust that the people charged with the planes mechanical well being were any smarter or more capable.

I was told that I was being silly. After all plane mechanics were part of a UNION.

Having some experience with people who were part of the BrotherHOODS this cemented my decision to avoid airplanes.

[irishjuggler]

I have a friend who loved that “if it ain’t Boeing” line and used to joke “it was nice knowing you” whenever anyone said they were going on an Airbus.

[neverevergiveup]

I would like to know if and how Boeing’s hiring practices have changed over the past decade or two. And, I would like them to investigate whether this was sabotage.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

McDonnell Douglas be damned. You have ruined Boeing.

That's what I've read multiple times - that McDonnell Douglas was the acquisition that took over and brought down the acquirer. Boeing supposedly had an engineering-first culture before that acquisition.

[ETCM]

Some line worker having a bad day or hangover?

Never fly in a plane built on Friday...