The 737 Max and Boeing’s unresolved issues
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After the door plug of an Alaskan Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max-9 blew out in flight earlier this month, the Federal Aviation Administration says it will perform a complete audit of the Max-9’s entire production line.
In this episode from 2020, we hear from a Boeing engineer and an aviation analyst about what’s at the root of the safety issues with the 737 Max, troubling the plane then and now.
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| 0:47.4 | And that's because federal scrutiny of Boeing and its 737 max nine aircraft is increasing. |
| 0:54.3 | Following this month's in-flight blow out of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight, |
| 0:59.4 | the Federal Aviation Administration has just issued a new statement saying the failure quote |
| 1:04.4 | should have never happened and it cannot happen again. The FAA has also opened an |
| 1:10.8 | investigation and at the end of this week the agency added that it |
| 1:15.0 | will perform a complete audit of the 737 Max Nine's entire production line. |
| 1:20.6 | Some engineers who used to work on the 737 Max9 production line |
| 1:25.8 | say they are not surprised that the plane has had major problems. Not at all. |
| 1:30.6 | We weren't surprised at all. Ed Pearson is a former manager at Boeing's factory. |
| 1:35.0 | He's now with the Foundation for Aviation Safety |
| 1:38.0 | and he just spoke with Seattle's local TV station K-I-R-O-7. |
| 1:42.0 | There's several root causes. local TV station K I R.O 7. |
| 1:43.0 | There's several root causes and a lot of this obviously goes back to the two max crashes. |
| 1:49.0 | I know this isn't reassuring to passengers. |
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