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Old 16th Mar 2024, 21:01
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Originally Posted by fizz57
That's closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. This particular problem probably has a very specific cause, has never happened before (else we'd have heard of it) and is unlikely to happen again. Taken together with other happenings, such as mis-drilled holes and loose nuts on rudder linkages, what is very obviously missing is a competent quality system that will prevent and/or catch errors of this sort when (not if - we're all human) they occur. This is the direction I hope that the FAA will take and mandate very firmly.
There was a very early post on this thread showing a photo of the NTSB examining the opposite side door plug on the incident aircraft, and the grounding of Max-9s and subsequently the 900NGs, was specifically so they could all be inspected thoroughly.
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