No, it's as insane as it reads.
It means people were careless and sloppy during assembly.
Think of it like seeing "one cockroach in your kitchen." It's not one cockroach. You just haven't opened up the rest of the walls.
It means people were careless and sloppy during assembly.
Think of it like seeing "one cockroach in your kitchen." It's not one cockroach. You just haven't opened up the rest of the walls.
Lots of stuff is assembled consistently and carefully “wrong”, but as specified.
Cost cutting could have been a factor. Or the root cause might have been something entirely different.
It's quite possible to choose to spend more money on a process or method you believe is higher quality, but still discover it has some specific problem that the previous cheaper version didn't.
https://nitter.net/ByERussell/status/1744460136855294106
I think this should stick out to an assembly person as not quite right.
Complicates the issue of who is at fault; where/when were they loosened?
The center one doesn't concern me. The two that aren't even finger tight do.
Those are much more problematic as the remaining tight bolts could fail leading to a cascade. Though, would expect the flange to still be connected to the post in the aftermath images and the upper pins .. how did they get out of the track?
I wish we had close up pics of all the bits in the airframe opening.
An ex worked on a QA-type project related to production for them. It makes me wonder if some of the issues were more fundamental than that project could ever have addressed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/business/boeing-787-dream...
If you make 10 or 500 planes in a year, you have to rely on multiple people to use multiple torque wrenches, with multiple attachments, to follow multiple procedures to assemble multiple planes using fasteners of multiple lengths, nearby multiple other processes and people. There is a big emphasis on procedures and traceability but there are still so many potential failure points that can go undiscovered for a long time.
I don’t like how the sentence in this parent comment blames individuals for process problems.
Boeing has a responsibility to make sure its workers do their jobs as needed.
Maybe. Could also be incorrect torque specs, bad parts, unexpected vibration in that area, etc.
Edit: Yes, none of these are good either. Just saying there are many possibilities.
>> "Initial reports from our technicians indicate some loose hardware was visible on some aircraft."
Friendly reminder that 'some' can also mean most or all.
In aerospace this is dead people.
Hospital system failing to parse patient's allergies can kill.
MCAS
Therac-25
That said, the stuffs I normally work in (or rather what I allow myself to work in) fall in to the reboot and apologize category.