Emergency slide falls from Delta Air Lines Boeing in mid-air

rbn , 1 month ago

I'm really wondering if accidents like this happened all the time and the press just started to highlight it more often or if Boeing planes are actually just falling apart after take off...

BrikoX OP Mod , 1 month ago

Both. Small issues always happened that went unreported by corporate media, but the frequency and severity increased exponentially lately. The real catalyst was the 1997 merger. McDonnell Douglas basically bought Boeing with its own money, since all the Boeing engineers that had management positions were fired or demoted and McDonnell Douglas executives moved into executives positions in Boeing. So it went from an engineer focused company to stocks are the only metric that matters company.

The reason for the issues not cropping up immediately is that airlines still used older places, since manufacturing a new plane takes a long time. And then different variants gets built and verified over time. Boeing MAX lineup, is the first real lineup that was built without old engineers and their focus on safety.

The Boeing MAX timeline: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-737-max-timeline-troubled-history-uncertain-future/