ninkosan
Charlie StrossSeattle Times: Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air:
Mike P@cstross Isn't this what submarine guy wanted to do?
Other than the "in the air" bit, that is.
Kat KimbrielLess and less interest in flying again. :(
Graydon@cstross Time to identify that whole decision making chain and everyone in it and put them to hoeing turnips a long way from an airport.
(I'd like to believe that the engineering capacity is still there; the management needs replacing soonest if they're coming up with that stuff.)
@graydon This is pretty typical of Boeing management since the reverse-takeover by McDonnell Douglas, who got a bad dose of Jack Welch Management Disease in the 1990s and infected Boeing from within.
Nemo@cstross Hence my advocacy of dooming the lot to a desolate turnip-hoeing existence. That sort of thing is nigh-impossible to fix, but it can be replaced.
It's a real pity there's no obvious parallel mechanism for the chute packing rule that could be applied to aircraft. (The parachute packers get randomly selected chutes and sent to jump. It does a lot for the quality of the chute packing.)
Deb4+ aka Deborah DT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️It's not like Boeing has skipped testing in the past and had multiple planes falling apart and killing people... Oh wait. It has ...
Simon Zerafa (Status: 
😊)My answers to that proposal would be something like No Way. With much stronger language though 🤨🤦♂️
Andrew Feeney@cstross Seems to me like that rather defeats the purpose of safety regulations.
EmbraceBecoming@cstross That seems like a terrible idea.
Administrator@cstross I'm sure I'm part of the nonzero amount of people that specifically book flights that use Airbus planes.
@cstross ...and I'm not changing that policy, either: https://bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67899564 "Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max 9 planes after section blows out mid-air"
12foxfire@cstross I often save reminder notes to myself. Here’s one. “NO Boeing 737 Max EVER.”
Covidiocracy@cstross @sepfeiffer “If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going”
Sir David Nielsen@cstross our famous for falling out of the sky and killing everyone plane is perfectly safe… we promise… again.
@cstross the odd thing about Mastodon is that QT are allowed, so long as you do them using a URL or a picture.
Steve Hersey@cstross
It's interesting that they would design an engine cowling heater with NO TEMPERATURE SENSOR to prevent overheating. How difficult is that to think of?
It's interesting that they would design an engine cowling heater with NO TEMPERATURE SENSOR to prevent overheating. How difficult is that to think of?
Darwin Woodka@cstross how about nah
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@cstross Nationalize Boeing and arrest all major Boeing Stockholders
JenK@cstross Thinking of Boeing employee who told me management moving to Chicago means they don't listen to the engineers anymore...
CavyherdOh yeah, THAT'S a good idea 🤦 😬
ianbobmorris@cstross Boeing has fallen so far since the merger with mcdonnell douglas
@cstross
I don't fly much, and probably only once more. But I'm going to be avoiding Boeing for that journey.
I don't fly much, and probably only once more. But I'm going to be avoiding Boeing for that journey.
Killa Koala@cstross Given this flaw, on a plane with the MAX's disastrous history, how has the FAA not grounded the existing MAX fleet? This fault presents Boeing and the FAA with an existential risk to both organisations. One crash and they're both toast.
Jet Balsa@cstross If I'm Airbus, I'm getting my marketing team fully behind pushing this story out there.
Havyhh2@cstross ...this aircraft has been a safety nightmare from the beginning....old airframe design with bigger engines, made that corrective MCAS system necessary....and didn't tell anyone!! And two crashed killing hundreds. The larger/smaller versions seem to be plagued by more and more issues, loose bolts in the tail section the other day's news. Boeing should get no exemptions from any safety requirements. Make it safe, meet all regs and rules. Or don't fly it. Pretty simple, really.
@cstross ….oof…..now a MAX 9 blows out a window, Alaska Airlines….
Alaska Airlines plane lands in Portland after losing window https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67899564
Orc
Angus McIntyre
Tim Schofield@havvyhh2
@davidho was on the flight
David Ho (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Because I needed another reason to never fly on a 737 MAX.
waldi
Mastodon MigrationThis thing should not be in the air.
Here is an excellent (long) explainer on the Boeing 737 MAX saga:
https://perell.com/essay/boeing-737-max/
#boeing #737
Blotreport: YES@cstross So, it is a shit aircraft, and may fall out of the sky? Is that what they mean?
GFIdk
gnate@cstross Fantastic timing, Boeing. On the same day as explosive decompression on 737 MAX 9...
What's next, CEO throws a baseball at it to prove the glass won't break?
geographile@cstross
What's the worst that could happen?
What's the worst that could happen?
