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Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets::Federal investigators are learning more about how a door panel flew off an Alaska Airlines jetliner last week.

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[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Why do airlines still buy Boeing? New airplanes they make are clearly dangerous, and they don't seem to be able to fix it for the next one, as we are already at the next ones...

[–] JackSkellington@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

There’s a long list of reasons:

  • training pilots to change planes
  • training maintenance teams
  • changing procurement practices
  • adapt supply chain
  • etc
  • and then on the bottom, 2 of the most important ones: cost control (maximize profits) and comfort
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