Boeing Forced to Store Undelivered 737 Max Jets in Employee Car Park

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13 points·neverminder··4 comments

So, Boeing is using a storage area... as a storage area?

That parking lot was intended to be used to store planes, its clear from how they constructed it out of the land that Plant 2 sat on they intended to store planes there, thats what Boeing said they would use it for, thats what they are doing right now. This is not really unprecedented, they have stored 787s in lots of odd places when the QA was backlogged.

So I'm curious - if Boeing keeps on churning out those planes, what if in the end they are never allowed to fly? Wouldn't Boeing be absolutely screwed?

well clearly they're never going to allow that to happen, even if it means using underhanded tactics once again.

they're already at work, trying to minimize damage from the lawsuits in Indonesia and Ethiopia. you might say it's just a form of corporate survival. sure, but what makes this decision any different from when they chose to hide MCAS from pilots? It's all about the money.

https://www.businessinsider.sg/boeing-737-max-cases-worthles...

The issues identified so far are solvable, and the solutions are being throughly tested.

I'm pretty sure that if the FAA were to, for some reason, decide no 737MAX can be flown ever again, literally every airline owning one would be suing them the same day and that would shatter any remaining faith in the FAA aroudn the world.

So, the planes will fly again and everyone will move on to solving the previous major safety issue in aviation: skills atrophy and automation dependence (which of course, contributed to the current issue).

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