Dude I fucking LOVE capitalism.
The free market makes all the best stuff.
Yup.
Boing will only fix it when the cost of compo for px deaths and FAA penalties looks like exceeding the cost of recalling/fixing during scheduled maintenance for all the engines…
Was this article AI generated? It’s written backwards.
it starts out with the resolution, then the senator’s response, then the company’s announcement, then a description of the problem, finally a description of the aircraft in question.
Literally the opposite of how information should be presented.
Anywho, here’s the actual issue at hand.
In August 2023, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive, a regulation designed to address the issue on the Max 8 and 9 airplanes, that “was prompted by a report indicating that use of engine anti-ice (EAI) in dry air for more than five minutes during certain environmental and operational conditions can cause overheating of the engine inlet inner barrel beyond the material design limit, resulting in failure of the engine inlet inner barrel and severe engine inlet cowl damage.”
In August 2023, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive, a regulation designed to address the issue on the Max 8 and 9 airplanes, that “was prompted by a report indicating that use of engine anti-ice (EAI) in dry air for more than five minutes during certain environmental and operational conditions can cause overheating of the engine inlet inner barrel beyond the material design limit, resulting in failure of the engine inlet inner barrel and severe engine inlet cowl damage.”
Flip the wrong switch for more than five minutes and the engine breaks.
Boeing should be nationalized, and its executives imprisoned. They are “too big to fail” yet incapable of creating planes that meet the lowest standards. The 737 MAX has multiple self-destruct features that are easy to activate. It’s ridiculous.
No, flip the correct switch for more than 5 minutes and the engine breaks. Much worse.
