Boeing 777X Structural Tests suspended after DOOR Blows Off

[Thor]

Shares plummeting

 

[Gordon_R]

Shares plummeting

Down 0.75%. If you look at the B737 MAX and the B777X, shareholders don't seem too concerned (yet).

 

[Segg]

Yarrt. Time to avoid Boeing totally?

Only if the bean counters have their way in the end...

I'm still a firm believer in Boeing, however recent events (and responses such as this that it's "good enough") have rattled my faith a bit

 

[RandomGeek]

Boeing 777X’s fuselage split dramatically during September stress test - The Seattle Times

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Read the full article at the link below (site may be pay-walled):

Boeing 777X’s fuselage split dramatically during September stress test

When Boeing's new 777X suffered a ground test failure in early September, the damage was much more alarming than previously reported. It wasn't a cargo door blowout. It was worse.

www.seattletimes.com

Duct tape won't be fixing that gash...

 

[Ivan Leon]

FAA demands that Boeing flight manuals give more detail on pilot emergency procedures - The Seattle Times

Boeing, under intensifying regulatory scrutiny after the fatal MAX crashes, has been directed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to rework its flight manuals for both the 777X and MAX 10 to include detailed emergency pilot procedures.

The FAA has told Boeing to incorporate into the Airplane Flight Manuals, formal documents that are required for certification of both jets, precise details of the procedures and checklists the crew must follow to handle the kind of emergencies that killed 346 people in the MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Those procedures had previously been detailed in other documents customized by individual airlines to train pilots.
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However, those airline documents are not overseen by regulators during the initial airplane certification process and may vary at airlines around the world.

The FAA is tightening control to ensure that for Boeing’s two current airplane development programs — the latest and largest version of the narrow-body MAX, which had its first flight in June; and the giant new derivative of Boeing’s wide-body 777, which first flew in January 2020 — this information goes out in a certification document provided to all airlines worldwide.

Boeing doesn’t see this new requirement adding further delay because certification of both jets has already been pushed far out until late 2023.

In May, the FAA cited a serious flight test incident and lack of design maturity for slowing certification of the 777X.

And certification of the MAX 10 is similarly delayed as Boeing works to develop further safety updates for flight control and crew alerting systems required by the European air safety regulator.

FAA demands that Boeing flight manuals give more detail on pilot emergency procedures

Under intensifying FAA scrutiny after the fatal MAX crashes, Boeing must rework the 777X and MAX 10 flight manuals to include precise instructions on pilot emergency procedures.

www.seattletimes.com