In an exclusive interview with NBC News senior correspondent Tom Costello, Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci says Alaska technicians have found more loose bolts on grounded planes. All Boeing 737 Max 9 planes remain grounded and hundreds of Alaska Airlines flights have been canceled.
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This is unacceptable. Airbus all the way.
Where's Pete Buttigieg? Why isn't nbc interviewing him? He must have an invisibility cloak like Harry Potter. Quite the circus our country has become.
If you watched a doc. On Netflix about Boeing then you know that these planes are not safe under this new management, they are all about profit not safety.
Mainstream media hasn't reported recent cracks found in Lufthansa A321 fuselages. I also want to know about Airbus incidents!
2:12 Airlines taking over the responsibility of checking for manufacturing issues, that’s all Boeing could dream of, would reduce costs significantly for Boeing
Boeing apologies for the delays and disruptions they have caused but NOT for almost bringing down an entire aircraft killing people.
blame blame blame..those bolts are drilled and have a castellated nut and a cotter pin goes thru.. the nut doesn't need to be tight and torqued.. but they will say they were loose
This is the result when the corrupt FAA allow the fox to mind the chickens!🤮
Put together in a temporary fasten job, I bet no job no paperwork associated prior to sidewall closers. Not my job give me a coffee card and participation trophy. Bring back theory X Management do your job , or get fired. 30.000 ft 500 miles per hour open your eyes 👀.
This is what we all get when they hire off of diversity, equity and inclusion. Over experience, skills and work ethic.
Pathetic
Their safety stand down is so ridiculous. People on the line have been telling management the QC is horrendous and nobody gives a crap until the planes are grounded and it's hurting the bottom line
Now we need to find a way to blame China for this….
These plugs and rudder hinge bolt issues have surfaced. Makes you wonder how many other components on the airframe have issues? So sad to see a company like Boeing get into this sort of mess. Bring the HQ back to Seattle and put engineers back in charge.
Boeing and quality goes together like Dodge and fuel efficient
When I was building lego airplanes as a kid, I often had parts left when I finished.
I failed to recognize that I was predestined to become an engineer at Boeing.
Airbus and boeing use the same supplier, call spirit and find out what happened.
How many other loose bolts are there, on things besides the door plugs. I think they should start at the front and work their way to the back, check everything!
the crashes were 5 years ago? Time flies. Also, ** boeing
Boeing is better than this? Boeing was better than this! It was once an aviation icon.
It's the first time I hear a CEO speaking honestly.
NASA tried "better, faster, cheaper" years ago and found out that you can only get two out of three. If you focus on "faster and cheaper" then you will not get "better". If you want quality then you have focus on quality instead of just doing it faster and cheaper. The shareholders might not like it but that's the reality.
So no one flies Alaska anymore then.
Corporate Greed has compromised Commercial Aviation Safety. Your fly at the risk of the Greedy Rich. DUSTOFF ❤
Thanks loose regulations and crony capitalism. Thanks
I think they knew something wasn't right with the plug theyd had 3 pressurization warnings on the plane so had scheduled maintenance the probability of all the empty seats being around the plug by chance is pretty low.
welcome to made in american quality
This is ridiculous. Its obvious the party responsible for assembling parts supplied by vendors to the plane are to be blamed. Now if the parts failed after proper assembly then the blame shift to the vendor. But in this case the door which flew off 16 thousand feet in the air & landed in one piece do imply that the door indeed is of high quality.
Consequences of DEI
All you need to know is… Nikki Haley was on the Board of DIRECTORS until 2020. She knows NOTHING let alone anything about Aviation!! Boeing is and has been a COMPLETE sh$tshow only concerned with profit for the last 20 years. All the top engineers QUIT or were driven out!
Someone shorted stock against Boeing for sure
It's time for Boeing to go!
Unacceptable.
Alaska has operated the Boeing 737-900/-900ER since the early 2000s when they started replacing their MD80s after the crash of Alaska 261 off the coast of LA, in which they put off maintenance on a jet that should’ve been in the shop. their MAX 9s have been in service for a Couple years now. Alaska should also send their inspectors to Spirit Aerosystems to make sure they’re putting the fuselage and door plugs together right. Sure Alaska can send their own QA inspectors all they want to double check the work at Boeing, but after that plane leaves the Boeing factory, then It is the responsibility of the airline to periodically inspect their planes. So Alaska do have some blame in this as well
Oh btw Even Airbus offers door plug option on their Airbus A321 NEOs.
What does "loose bolts" mean in this instance? The nuts are captive by Cotter pins. As long as the bolts are there at all, the door plug can't come off. The bolts don't have to be "tight" in fact, they probably can't be by definition because once you tighten it, the Cotter pin won't usually go in. Then you must loosen it to get the pin in. The whole point is, the bolts (four of them) all have nuts and pins that keep them in. The bolts (ANY of the four) would keep the door plug in place, and all have the pins. If all bolts were "loose", it's okay. They are "present." In order for all to be GONE, they weren't there in the first place. They simply weren't installed in that plane, sorry Boeing, facts are facts and you know it.
Majority North American carriers are crap. Top class carriers are Emirates, Etihad, Qatar, Gulf Air, Cathay pacific, Singapore, Lufthansa, Qantas, Malaysian airlines.
Boeing's CEO is an accountant. Airbus' CEO is an aerospace engineer. That speaks for itself.
2:10 Boeing should start by re-hiring the quality inspectors they fired years ago.
They can just tighten the bolt and get those planes back in the air. Then get to the bottom of why it happened. But everyone wants their 15minutes of fame
Some bolts on many planes. He's mad now? If this was a Japanese airline company he would apologize and resign in shame.
Boeing has too many affirmative action policies going on? too worried about that?
So Boeing aircraft never crashed before the “bean counters” were running the airline?
Ironically, if they make it out of this, Boeing will probably be the safest airline ever to fly in the coming years. The amount of money theyre about to throw at safety if they really care about the company is about to be insane.
Boeing is 100% responsible
Meh Boeing doesn't care, the execs just want fat bonus checks.
Boeing again needs to fire its CEO, AND the board of directors. The next CEO needs to be someone with an aircraft engineering background. Shameful.
This will cause headaches for Airbus believe it or not.
Corrupt or flawed capitalism eventually starts to prey on itself.
Find out who bet short on Akaska Airline stock before event. James Bond would have investigated it.