Still Can't Make Planes

It looks like Boeing 737 MAX production will be put on hold again for a defective part.

The defective part is from a "Supplier" Spirit Aerosystems, which was formerly Boeing's Wichita division before it was sold off and doubtless turned in to yet more stock buy-backs.

It's it's not an important point, it just ……… Holds the tail on.

Airbus for me in the future:

Only days after reporting a surge in 737 MAX jet deliveries last month, Boeing revealed Thursday deliveries of the aircraft will be substantially slowed due to a new defect in a part from supplier Spirit AeroSystems.

The defect will require rework on finished MAXs not yet delivered as well as those currently on the assembly line.

Spirit said the newly discovered problem may date back four years, and so could potentially affect most of the planes built since the jet was grounded in 2019 after two fatal crashes.

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Spirit, which builds the entire MAX fuselage in Wichita, Kansas, notified Boeing on Wednesday that “a non-standard manufacturing process” was used during the installation of two fittings at the vertical tail of certain 737 MAX 7, MAX 8 and MAX 8-200 models, as well as on the 737-based P-8 military plane for the U.S. Navy.

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Ron Epstein, a financial analyst with Bank of America who has an aerospace engineering degree, expressed amazement at yet another defect belatedly surfacing now despite all the scrutiny on the MAX since the two crashes.

“How could they have missed this after four years when they were supposed to have looked at everything with a fine-tooth comb?” Epstein said.

Because they don't care.  Boeing is not in the business of making planes, it is in the business of making profits.