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Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset
BY LUKE GOLDSTEIN
The plug door that ripped off an Alaska Airlines plane only exists
because of cost-cutting production techniques to facilitate cramming
more passengers into the cabin.
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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD VIA AP
National Transportation Safety Board Investigator-in-Charge John Lovell
examines the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, January
7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon.
ON SUNDAY NIGHT, Bob Sauer, a high school science teacher in the
Portland, Oregon, area, took a flashlight into his backyard and spotted
a 65-pound piece of white aerospace equipment. It was nestled at the
foot of several trees, which softened its 16,000-foot fall out of the
sky.
The specific piece of equipment, a plug door that broke off a Boeing 737
MAX 9 aircraft during Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 from Portland on
Friday night, in fact illustrates many of the broader trends in the
airline industry today: the desire to cram more passengers into finite
space, the standardization of production across outsourced
subcontractors, and the lack of oversight from federal regulators into
these increasingly dangerous schemes.
Many of these same problems led to Boeing's infamous 737 MAX plane
crashes in 2018 and 2019, which killed 346 people. Those crashes
involved a new semi-autopiloting software that malfunctioned, forcing
the planes to nosedive against the pilot's best attempts to correct
course.
A faulty course change pretty well describes Boeing, which went through
a restructuring during the 1990s from an "association of engineers"
to a firm run by Wall Street shareholders. This catastrophic path has
led to another systemic crisis for one of the world's two major
commercial aviation companies, underscoring the deterioration of
Boeing's product quality by financialization, cost-cutting, and
outsourcing.
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