Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, report says
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An aircraft that crashed in November had a structural flaw that had been identified by Boeing 15 years ago, investigators say.
  • MyEdgyAlt@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    8 days ago

    This is very misleading. The actual content says that they knew the mount could fail, but didn’t think it was a flight-safety risk…probably because there would still be two other good engines. It took 55 years (1970->2025) for aviation enthusiasts and pilots (presumably also Boeing) to realize that a wing engine failing also had an appreciable chance of taking out the tail engine. And that ISN’T what happened with AA191 in 1979: in that crash, the engine damaged the wing and hydraulics, not the tail engine. So they fixed that problem four decades ago.

    I’m all for raking the McDonell-Douglass culture that destroyed Boeing over the coals, but that doesn’t seem to be the situation here.

  • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    They also knew of the flaw that forced an uncommanded pitch down and pushed with so much force a human could barely pull it back at all, let alone recover a suddenly nose diving plane against it.