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Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets (apnews.com)

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Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets::Federal investigators are learning more about how a door panel flew off an Alaska Airlines jetliner last week.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Why do airlines still buy Boeing? New airplanes they make are clearly dangerous, and they don't seem to be able to fix it for the next one, as we are already at the next ones...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

There’s a long list of reasons:

training pilots to change planes
training maintenance teams
changing procurement practices
adapt supply chain
etc
and then on the bottom, 2 of the most important ones: cost control (maximize profits) and comfort

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Boeing advertises the 737 Max by saying that it works just like the old 737 so you don’t need to retrain your pilots and save money. The issue a few years ago with that is that these planes are not 737 so when some new issue happens the pilots don’t know how to deal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The cost of retraining their pilots would bite into their profits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It’s near impossible to switch to airbus if an airline is preset entrenched in Boeing. You have to retrain everyone from ground crews to pilots to FAs to maintenance. On top of that you need new suppliers for spare parts, maintenance hubs and contracts.

Also supply is a major issue. Both Airbus and Boeing are back ordered for years, so there isn’t a way to easily switch fleets.