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Boeing 737 Max 9: United Airlines finds loose bolts during inspections (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (9 children)

After looking at that diagram I have to ask - why in the everliving fuck would a pressure bearing panel like that be hung by bolts and not inserted into the cabin and held in place by the ribs of the fuselage? I mean seriously?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I don’t get why they don’t just make it a bit bigger on the inside so that when pressurized, the pressure itself seals it. Seems like a fail safe solution instead of this shadiness.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But mah profits!

737 Max is still a developing example of what happens when you leave corporate to self-regulate themselves.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It's a well documented that when Boeing merged with McDonald Douglas, they turned from an engineering led company to an executive led one & have been shit since

https://archive.is/vy5p7

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