<story><title>Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/alaska-airlines-found-more-loose-bolts-boeing-737-max-9-ceo-says-rcna135316</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmalsburg2</author><text>&amp;gt; Alaska Airlines doesn&amp;#x27;t trust Boeing enough&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t trust Boeing enough or their customers don&amp;#x27;t trust Boeing enough and it&amp;#x27;s a PR measure to calm the passengers&amp;#x27; nerves.  Could also be a bit of both.</text></item><item><author>aurareturn</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;quot;We’re sending our audit people to audit their quality control systems and processes to make sure that every aircraft that comes off that production line, that comes to Alaska has the highest levels of excellence and quality,&amp;quot; he said.
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This seems crazy to me. Alaska Airlines doesn&amp;#x27;t trust Boeing enough that they&amp;#x27;re sending their audit team to Boeing to check for quality.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Though safety inspections were initially estimated to take between four and eight hours per plane, Whitaker said they’ve “been longer than that.”

  “We’ve required a lot of measurements,” he said. “Once the area’s exposed, we want to understand bolt tensions and gaps and things of that nature. So we’ve required more data than would normally be the case because we really wanted to understand the issue.”

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Also, the FAA is at Boeing checking their quality process. They&amp;#x27;re only doing it for the door and bolts. The problem is that we don&amp;#x27;t know which other parts and systems Boeing might have quality issues for. Yes, I&amp;#x27;m confident they&amp;#x27;ll make the bolts tighter on the door. But what about the entire plane&amp;#x27;s quality check? I feel like the FAA should ground the plane until they audit every single thing about the plane. That&amp;#x27;s the only way I would personally feel confident.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjulius</author><text>Alaska was the airline who had their door ripped off. A reasonable take is to expect them to want to ensure that things like that don&amp;#x27;t happen again. PR is an added bonus.</text></comment>
<story><title>Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/alaska-airlines-found-more-loose-bolts-boeing-737-max-9-ceo-says-rcna135316</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmalsburg2</author><text>&amp;gt; Alaska Airlines doesn&amp;#x27;t trust Boeing enough&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t trust Boeing enough or their customers don&amp;#x27;t trust Boeing enough and it&amp;#x27;s a PR measure to calm the passengers&amp;#x27; nerves.  Could also be a bit of both.</text></item><item><author>aurareturn</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;quot;We’re sending our audit people to audit their quality control systems and processes to make sure that every aircraft that comes off that production line, that comes to Alaska has the highest levels of excellence and quality,&amp;quot; he said.
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This seems crazy to me. Alaska Airlines doesn&amp;#x27;t trust Boeing enough that they&amp;#x27;re sending their audit team to Boeing to check for quality.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Though safety inspections were initially estimated to take between four and eight hours per plane, Whitaker said they’ve “been longer than that.”

  “We’ve required a lot of measurements,” he said. “Once the area’s exposed, we want to understand bolt tensions and gaps and things of that nature. So we’ve required more data than would normally be the case because we really wanted to understand the issue.”

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Also, the FAA is at Boeing checking their quality process. They&amp;#x27;re only doing it for the door and bolts. The problem is that we don&amp;#x27;t know which other parts and systems Boeing might have quality issues for. Yes, I&amp;#x27;m confident they&amp;#x27;ll make the bolts tighter on the door. But what about the entire plane&amp;#x27;s quality check? I feel like the FAA should ground the plane until they audit every single thing about the plane. That&amp;#x27;s the only way I would personally feel confident.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hakcermani</author><text>As the saying goes .. Vertrauen ist gut, aber Kontrolle ist besser! (Trust is good but verifying is better!)</text></comment>