Boeing stays firmly on course... to the bottom

[robdean]

This seems to have caused no incidents yet in long service, but on the other hand, given an identified risk, the FAA can hardly be expected to default to waiting until people die before they act.

Originally Posted by Dave Therhino

If you want to see Boeing's comments and see how the FAA actually responded, here's the link to the AD publication. The discussion of the Boeing comments is at the beginning.

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Gu...2019-23-04.pdf

❝Boeing reported that its system safety assessment determined that the FQIS on the Model 727 airplane does not have an unsafe condition. The FAA disagrees (...) Boeing did not provide specific details about the type of assessment that was performed (total fleet risk, average risk per flight hour, peak individual flight risk, etc.).❞

It seems from the above that a factor here is not just Boeing being cheap about implementation, but being cheap about the case they make to contest implementation, & the FAA insisting that the latter, at least, is not good enough.