FAA orders Boeing to check 1000 B737s for defective parts?
Anything related with latest Bali mishap? Or to the Al Jazeera documentary about parts for critical fuselage areas that could have been manufactured not to specs?
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FAA orders Boeing to check 1000 B737s for defective parts?
I watched the Al-Jazeera documentary a couple of years ago and found it quite disturbing. Here's the link:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWdEtANi-0&feature=relmfu |
See http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...down-bali.html - currently immediately above your post. DRuk explains.
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The aircraft in Bali has the line number 4350.
The AD points to a rear spar attach pin installed on line number 1 to 3534. And these aircrafts have to be inspected prior to the accumulation of 56,000 total flight cycles on the pin, or within 3,000 flight cycles after the effective date of the AD, whichever occurs later. |
I am not sure if this directive covers the "butt straps" which are used to tie the various sections of aeroplanes together. They are strengthening pieces of metal which overlap the joints, ie the fwd fuselage to the wing box etc. I have noticed there has been an alarming increase in 737s breaking at these points in minor crashes. They are obviously weak points in an a/c and as such need to be oversized and stronger than the surrounding structure. The TV program mentioned above is well worth viewing.
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I am not sure if this directive covers the "butt straps" which are used to tie the various sections of aeroplanes together. I have noticed there has been an alarming increase in 737s breaking at these points in minor crashes. |
KBPsen
Suggest you look at "B787 faces new risks on ETOPS" thread 36 posted by Jackx123 dated 31/3. I truely wonder if Boeings manufacturing is as sound as it should be.? |
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Who gives a crap where the aircraft breaks in a crash? simple, don't crash the aircraft and it won't break up. If it isn't failing during operations (and they haven't) then you have no point other than to troll.
Also this aircraft had 200 hours on it or so....the AD refers to a potentially improperly applied anti corrosion coating, so even if this aircraft was affected by the AD ya really think in 200 hours a improperly applied coating is going to allow the part to fail? I don't and neither does Boeing since you have 3000 cycles (up to several years depending on sector length) to comply with it. |
Walnut
I truely wonder if Boeings manufacturing is as sound as it should be?
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So, just for the sake of clarity let's agree that this AD has nothing to do with the Al-J report. For those that are concerned about that particular film I'll reproduce an email reply I sent to the person who sent it to me:
Originally Posted by DW (email)
Hmm... I don't doubt the whistleblowers' story for a second - it pretty much ties in to the rise of the MBA generation in management and their lack of understanding with regard to anything other than the bottom line.
However the film does make a few factual errors and over-reaches in places. The two most glaring errors that I could see were the claim that the Turkish accident was an overrun (it was in fact a stall on approach), and their misuse of the old AMK test footage as a demonstration of the strength of the B707 (actually a B720) fuselage. The AMK crash sequence cannot be compared to the three NG accidents because of the yaw factor in the former, meaning that the main stress loads on the B720 fuselage were transverse rather than longitudinal on impact. The over-reach is not with the problems presented by the whistleblowers themselves, and that part may well bode ill for the future - but the attempt to connect with the three NG accidents is at best very flimsy. I did a quick check after viewing and confirmed that the fuselage separation was not just consistent with those three accidents, but also with Kegworth (which was a B734 "Classic"). The rear failed in the same way at Manchester, and the famous Aloha 737 "convertible" failed at roughly the same place at the front - both of these were B732 (aka "Jurassic") models. This leads me to question whether those frames may just be prone to being fracture points due to the way the B737 fuselage is, and has always been, designed. Interesting stuff though, for sure! |
Who gives a crap where the aircraft breaks in a crash? simple, don't crash the aircraft and it won't break up. Wilbur Wright wept. |
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