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Originally Posted by Paul
Wow ..... my front door is held in place by more bolts.
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I bet your door wouldn’t withstand 900 kilonewtons before flying off
(The tail fin of that Airbus withstood more than doubled its design tolerance before failing - the ‘wiggling’ Pierre described was actually a series of extremely violent and excessive control inputs by the plane’s first officer, who had been poorly trained on how to escape the emergency situation they were in).
In the present case, Boeing has allowed yet another flawed 737 Max 9 out of the factory. The type is turning out to be a disaster. Netflix’s damning documentary on the company (Downfall: The case against Boeing) is well worth watching. It focuses on the software issue that caused the autopilot to crash more than one of them and concludes that the corporate culture at Boeing has gone rotten, killing off the safety culture the company used to be famous for.
The blanking plate installed in this aircraft where there would otherwise have been an optional emergency door is either badly designed, or else its installation at the factory was botched and then quality control failed to pick it up. Either possibility is unnerving.