i had the fun of flying on one of these this afternoon! i, uh, wasn't thrilled about it. looked like about half the southwest planes at lax were 737 maxes.― circles, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 8:49 PM (one week ago)
― circles, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 8:49 PM (one week ago)
probably an 737-800. Can confirm all the SWA 737 MAX flights in/out of LAX were cancelled one week ago.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 22 March 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
This and the other comments about sensor triple redundancy in the article best sum up the engineering problems with the plane. The problems are more fundamental than "dumb planes are safer".
As R. John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told me in a March 28 interview,"As I understand it, at high angles of attack the Nacelles -- which are the tube shaped structures around the fans -- create aerodynamic lift. Because the engines are further forward, the lift tends to push the nose up -- causing the angle of attack to increase further. This reinforces itself and results in a pitch-up tendency which if not corrected can result in a stall. This is called an unstable or divergent condition. It should be noted that many high performance aircraft have this tendency but it is not acceptable in transport category aircraft where there is a requirement that the aircraft is stable and returns to a steady condition if no forces are applied to the controls."
"As I understand it, at high angles of attack the Nacelles -- which are the tube shaped structures around the fans -- create aerodynamic lift. Because the engines are further forward, the lift tends to push the nose up -- causing the angle of attack to increase further. This reinforces itself and results in a pitch-up tendency which if not corrected can result in a stall. This is called an unstable or divergent condition. It should be noted that many high performance aircraft have this tendency but it is not acceptable in transport category aircraft where there is a requirement that the aircraft is stable and returns to a steady condition if no forces are applied to the controls."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/04/02/mit-expert-highlights-divergent-condition-caused-by-737-max-engine-placement
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
got off a 737-800 a few hours ago and my knees are still feeling it. screw safety, what these things need is 3 more inches of legroom
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
I feel your pain as a 6'4" guy. Legroom is driven by the airlines' seating configuration, not the manufacturer. Our discomfort is another row or two of ticket revenue. NPR has an article that suggests nothing will change. Would like to see officials load their own families on a 90-second evac trial, and then praise seating arrangements.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
Note to self - fly airbus
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190403/p2g/00m/0bu/002000c
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 5 April 2019 07:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html
Not great.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 20 April 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer
not great.
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
Boeing Has So Many Grounded 737 Max Planes Waiting to Be Fixed They're Parking Them in the Employee Parking Lot
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
In a bit of good news, one company is interested in buying quite a few of them.
Boeing on Tuesday won its first order for 737 Max planes since the jets were grounded worldwide in March after two fatal crashes. The vote of confidence from British Airways’ parent sent shares of the manufacturer sharply higher.International Consolidated Airlines Group, or IAG, signed a letter of intent at the Paris Air Show to order 200 Boeing 737 Max planes.
International Consolidated Airlines Group, or IAG, signed a letter of intent at the Paris Air Show to order 200 Boeing 737 Max planes.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/british-airways-parent-places-first-new-order-for-boeing-737-max-since-grounding.html
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
For Seattle ilxors, you can view the parking lot in the jalopnik article from the south park bridge. It’s amazing, maybe 30 of them sitting along the river, iceland air and thai smile and turkish and so many others i don’t recognize
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
Boeing 737 MAX 8 Likely Grounded for Rest of 2019 After New Concerns Raised
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Sunday, 30 June 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Some of the language in that article is a maybe a little bit hyperbolic.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
This is a bit more measured, Boeing still don't come out of it very well at all:
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/faa-and-boeing-initially-disagreed-on-severity-of-catastrophic-737-max-software-glitch/
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 1 July 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-crashes.html
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 21 September 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
That’s a good read.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 September 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
Although it doesn’t really offer any solutions- just a very well researched and well written description of the problem. I’m mildly suspicious of the expert graybeards from central casting that he quotes throughout the piece, because it all seems a little one-sided, but then again the Indonesian and Ethiopian crews that are still around to talk are apparently not allowed to.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
Boeing pilots' messages on 737 MAX safety raise new questions
― Book Doula (sleeve), Sunday, 20 October 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/john-barnett-on-why-he-wont-fly-on-a-boeing-787-dreamliner/
What is your own personal practice on flying Boeing aircraft now?“When I worked on the 747, the 767, the 777 in Everett, those are beautiful planes. And the people there fully understood what it took to build a safe and airworthy aircraft. I hate to throw the entire label over the whole product line. But as far as the 787, I would change flights before I would fly a 787. I’ve told my family — please don’t fly a 787. Fly something else. Try to get a different ticket. I want the people to know what they are riding on.”
“When I worked on the 747, the 767, the 777 in Everett, those are beautiful planes. And the people there fully understood what it took to build a safe and airworthy aircraft. I hate to throw the entire label over the whole product line. But as far as the 787, I would change flights before I would fly a 787. I’ve told my family — please don’t fly a 787. Fly something else. Try to get a different ticket. I want the people to know what they are riding on.”
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a30470973/boeing-737-max-employees-emails/I don’t want to read this. I’m just posting it here
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 January 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
"This airplane is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys.”
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
But the the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee provided excerpts of those messages to Bloomberg News that un-redacted the Indonesian carrier’s name.“Now friggin Lion Air might need a sim to fly the MAX, and maybe because of their own stupidity. I’m scrambling trying to figure out how to unscrew this now! idiots,” one Boeing employee wrote in June 2017 text messages obtained by the company and released by the House committee.In response, a Boeing colleague replied: “WHAT THE F%$&!!!! But their sister airline is already flying it!” That was an apparent reference to Malindo Air, the Malaysian-based carrier that was the first to fly the Max commercially.
“Now friggin Lion Air might need a sim to fly the MAX, and maybe because of their own stupidity. I’m scrambling trying to figure out how to unscrew this now! idiots,” one Boeing employee wrote in June 2017 text messages obtained by the company and released by the House committee.
In response, a Boeing colleague replied: “WHAT THE F%$&!!!! But their sister airline is already flying it!” That was an apparent reference to Malindo Air, the Malaysian-based carrier that was the first to fly the Max commercially.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-14/lion-air-idiots-sought-more-max-training-boeing-thwarted-it
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
is there anyway to check (in advance of booking) which type of aircraft will be used on your flight? would not fancy going on one of these for say, oooooh, about 10 years?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/9/22165956/boeing-737-max-flight-brazil-gol-airlines
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
Gol Airlines told the publication it plans to use the 737 Max in regular service starting later this month, and passengers who don’t want to fly on the plane will be able to exchange their tickets.
all airlines need to do this imo
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
You can go to FlightAware.com and enter your flight # which will give you a lot of data about that flight; below the flight map you'll see a log of scheduled flights and what aircraft will be used, plus a record of what aircraft were used in previous flights.
Some airlines' websites, e.g. JetBlue's, tell you the aircraft used for each flight when you go there to do your booking. I wouldn't say they're accurate 100% of the time but I think they generally are.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
Another 737 gone missing after taking off from jakarta
― nob lacks, noirish (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 January 2021 11:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-not-spirit-mis-installed-piece-that-blew-off-alaska-max-9-jet/
The fuselage panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet earlier this month was removed for repair then reinstalled improperly by Boeing mechanics on the Renton final assembly line, a person familiar with the details of the work told The Seattle Times.If verified by the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, this would leave Boeing primarily at fault for the accident, rather than its supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which originally installed the panel into the 737 MAX 9 fuselage in Wichita, Kan.That panel, a door plug used to seal a hole in the fuselage sometimes used to accommodate an emergency exit, blew out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 as it climbed out of Portland on Jan. 5. The hair-raising incident drew fresh and sharp criticism of Boeing’s quality control systems and safety culture, which has been under the microscope since two fatal 737 MAX crashes five years ago.Last week, a different person — an anonymous whistleblower who appears to have access to Boeing’s manufacturing records of the work done assembling the specific Alaska Airlines jet that suffered the blowout — on an aviation website separately provided many additional details about how the door plug came to be removed and then mis-installed.
If verified by the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, this would leave Boeing primarily at fault for the accident, rather than its supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which originally installed the panel into the 737 MAX 9 fuselage in Wichita, Kan.
That panel, a door plug used to seal a hole in the fuselage sometimes used to accommodate an emergency exit, blew out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 as it climbed out of Portland on Jan. 5. The hair-raising incident drew fresh and sharp criticism of Boeing’s quality control systems and safety culture, which has been under the microscope since two fatal 737 MAX crashes five years ago.
Last week, a different person — an anonymous whistleblower who appears to have access to Boeing’s manufacturing records of the work done assembling the specific Alaska Airlines jet that suffered the blowout — on an aviation website separately provided many additional details about how the door plug came to be removed and then mis-installed.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 January 2024 00:32 (four months ago) link
KAYAK Lets Users Filter Out Boeing 737 Max 9 Flights After Door Blows Off Plane
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 January 2024 00:33 (four months ago) link
oof
― dead precedents (sleeve), Friday, 26 January 2024 00:48 (four months ago) link
Nationalize Boeing
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 January 2024 01:15 (four months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/delta-air-lines-plane-nose-wheel-falls-off
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 26 January 2024 08:34 (four months ago) link
More concerns as Alaska Airlines flight arrives at PDX gate with open cargo doorhttps://www.koin.com/news/alaska-airlines-safety-concerns-cargo-door-pictures-portland/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 9 March 2024 05:05 (three months ago) link
o_0
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:20 (three months ago) link
DamnAlso this today https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/03/11/at-least-50-injured-on-latam-airlines-boeing-787-after-technical-problem-causes-sudden-drop-in-altitude/
― calstars, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:50 (three months ago) link
Jon Oliver did a good piece on them last week, the gist of it is their only priority right now is shareholder value
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 00:07 (three months ago) link
I know nothing about financing, stocks, etc. But it seems to me that if I owned a business that I really cared about, I would never take it public.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 11:50 (three months ago) link
Really good article that sums up Barnett's (the now dead whistleblower) complaints.
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
― just like Christopher Wray said (brownie), Friday, 29 March 2024 14:01 (two months ago) link
Hm another whistleblower has died.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/
― just like Christopher Wray said (brownie), Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:06 (one month ago) link
o_O
those Prospect articles about Barnett are wild
― rob, Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:58 (one month ago) link
I was going to say something about irony impairment by naming your rejected/not-rejected parts bin MRSA, but fuck this companyhttps://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-04-30-whistleblower-laws-protect-lawbreakers/
Sections 47 and 48 of a 787 Boeing Dreamliner fuselage consist of the back four rows of the plane’s passenger seating, bathrooms, meal prep area, flight attendant seating, and rear exit doors. “Not the kind of thing you could sneak out on the back of a pickup truck,” says Rob Turkewitz, an attorney who represents the estate of John Barnett, the whistleblower who was found dead last month the morning he’d been scheduled to finish a deposition in his whistleblower lawsuit against the company. And yet around 2015, someone caused a massive hunk of this fuselage to vanish from the Material Review Segregation Area (MRSA) of the Charleston, South Carolina, 787 assembly plant, without leaving any kind of paper trail. As near as Turkewitz and his former client have been able to figure, no one ever determined what became of the thing.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:48 (one month ago) link
what in the fuck
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 3 May 2024 00:27 (one month ago) link
so what, hypothetically, could you do with that if you had ill intent?
I think the point here was that 'losing track' of something like that and not even reporting it is a graphic illustration of how absurdly far Boeing was from compliance with federal regulatory requirements. Whether it was purposeful or accidental wouldn't even matter.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 3 May 2024 00:43 (one month ago) link
gotcha, jeez
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 3 May 2024 01:12 (one month ago) link
crazy stuff
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 3 May 2024 01:13 (one month ago) link
last company i worked for did tons of business for Boeing - we supplied them with antennas among other things. our company, and i wouldn't be surprised if it was the same with other suppliers, were more and more following the Boeing mentality. we had a locked room that had all the "scrap material" that couldn't be taken to the material shredder until everything was signed off on by quality assurance, the appropriate upper management, the customer, etc. so the fact Boeing had something like that disappear is absolutely wild.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 3 May 2024 01:41 (one month ago) link
straight up, the FAA doesn't fuck around, so at least i made sure everything i was doing was always by procedure.
for example, products we supplied airlines had to be assembled, painted, tested, etc. at certain approved temperatures and humidity. one year, the facility manager decided that to save some money they were going to hold off on repairing the AC system. flash forward to May/June and the AC hasn't been fixed and a heat wave is going through the area. the production area was hitting 95+ F and terrible humidity. it took program managers to get them to let them know we were violating government regulations to finally get them to fix the AC. but that's the kinda snakey shit i started seeing upper upper management were doing to save a buck/get their next promotion.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 3 May 2024 01:49 (one month ago) link
yep, and I bet that was x10 at Boeing
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 3 May 2024 01:51 (one month ago) link