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Is The 737 Max Jinxed?
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I am not generally superstitious but I'm starting to think that there is something fundementally wrong with this plane. I ain't getting on one!
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The 737 Max has, IMO, a fundamental flaw with the "door" that blew out. It was not a door at all, but a "plug" inserted into the fuselage. The designers decided that a single fuselage design would suffice and on aircraft with a lower capacity (such aas the one involved), the gap is not used as a door at all, but is simply plugged and the inside looks no different to the rest of the cabin. On higher capacity configurations a standard emergency exit door is used.
The biggest problem is that whilst a door closes in the usual way (the cabin pressure forcing it outwards against the seal) the plug is simply bolted in place from the outside, with the seal simply providing an airtight seal.
Hopkirk, did you ever get to get to travel in the spare seat in the cockpit. We used to go up in them to help train the fire crews on the airport in middle east. They used to come to our airport to train the pilots doing touch and goes so we often went up in them. Went down in the lifts to the kitchen a number of times too. At the time it seemed very modern.
I sat in that seat once while they were doing touch and goes but nothing like it would have been going into Kai Tak. I flew into Kai Tak as a youngster in the mid sixties different to say the least. Flew home on a BA Tristar flight from Jeddah once with only 31 passengers on board cabin crew just said sit wherever I wanted.
// The Max is based on the original 737 which has been in use for many years //
it is - but the original 737 couldn't accept the new breed of fuel efficient engines as they're too big. Boeing really needed to design a "new" 737 but there was no time for that, as Airbus already had a fuel efficient product in the market place. so they bodged the existing airframe to make the new engines fit, but the unintended consequence of that was the finished aircraft didn't behave or handle like a standard 737, so the airlines' existing aircrew would have needed specific training on the "Max". (the airlines didn't want that, as it would mean operating a split 737 fleet). so cue the correcting software that had all the problems, and subsequently caused the loss of 2 aircraft in 2021.
NJ, looks like you are right ...
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Bolts in need of "additional tightening" have been found during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9s, United Airlines has said.
Inspections began after a section of the fuselage fell from an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 on Friday.
United Airlines said "installation issues" relating to door plugs would be "remedied" before the aircraft type would return to service.
I worked on the B737 for many years. It wasn' t badly designed. It was a little work horse and I felt very safe on it no matter what that aircraft had to deal with. I left it to work on the A320 (which to be fair, people had misgivings about) but the problem with the Max was that Boeing tried to use the same airframe instead of starting again. That was their mistake.
I now see that a passengers mobile phone that went through the hole the panel left has been found. After falling 16,000 feet it was found by the side of a road and is still working. I bet the company that makes the phone will be trying to make it sound like their product is so good it can even withstand a fall of that size.
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