• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.”

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      8 months ago

      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.