Boeing's Engineering Record Takes Another Hit As a Portion of a 757 Wing Falls Off While in Fkight

 

Boeing continues on the issue of safety to be in a world of hurt
From being an icon of aeronautical engineering excellence its performance has been discarded into the dirt
From 2 737 Super Max jets 757 crashing to kill all aboard and for months by the FAA confined to the ground
To an Alaska Air 737 9 on a flight from Portland to Ontario blowing out a window and forcing the flight to turn back around
To a United Air 757 flight to Boston losing a portion of its wing
To divert to Denver to avoid news of another plane failure to the public bring
The Portland flight had missing bolts which caused the window to be blown out
Hard to fathom how this could be the case with the cabin filled with terrified screams and shouts
The investigations are proceeding to determine cause
Whether due to a scheduled maintenance flaw
Or a defect in the manufacture that was somehow missed
Should passengers be concerned the skies are not friendly when defects are missed?
When workers are pushed by timelines for work that compromise doing the job right?
Or when the demands of DEI mean hiring workers who are below par in insuring safety of a flight?
The test should not be DEI in terms of whom should be hired to do a job
But the degree of competence such that the safety of the airline passengers are not robbed
Boeing needs to get its act together as China is now building passenger jet planes
At prices that may well end Boeing's dominant passenger jet plane provider reign 

© February 21, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet