Originally Posted by
Smythe
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Face it, Boeing knew the issues, and failed to disclose to the FAA and the pilots...putting at risk EVERYONE who flew on those aircraft since being certified to fly.
That is one hell of a reach from somebody who is not in the business of fixing fleetwide problems.
The industry, including operators does not have the capacity to ground aircraft after every incident while they come up with fixes that actually work and not cause other problems. Sure every manufacturer considers a cargo door failure and the resulting decompression. But just how big a decompression rate is judged based on the opening per unit time and the ability to bleed off pressure waves that can take out other systems. The United event was a wake up or surprise that the decompression wake would eject passenger seats in whole. Thus the magnitude of the system involvement from the passenger standpoint surprised us all. Hence the reaction after the event.
But let's get back to this thread subject. The surprise to me was how little secondary damage to systems actually occurred with such a massive fan disk failure. But that surprise while welcomed.doesn't make us sleep well in light of other historical events like Sioux city etc.. So once again we go to the extra work of getting more information by finding key parts.to better understand what corrective actions are warranted throughout the operators