Urgent safety alert on Boeing 737s, MAX issued; NTSB says critical flight controls could jam

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Source: Scripps News

Posted 7:41 PM, Sep 26, 2024


Embattled plane-maker Boeing has been dealt another major blow after the National Transportation Safety Board issued an urgent alert on Thursday warning the public that some Boeing 737s, including the MAX line, have critical control components that could potentially jam.

The NTSB warned that the rudder control system could become jammed or restricted on some 737 airplanes including the 737NG and 737 MAX lines.

The rudder components involved in the warning are installed on the tail of some Boeing planes in the 737 lines, and are designed to control the rudder's movement during approach, landing and roll out operations.

In a Feb. 6 incident this year the rudder pedals on a United Airlines-operated Boeing 737-8 — which is a variant of the MAX jet — became "stuck" in the neutral position during landing at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, the NTSB said.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/business/company-news/urgent-safety-alert-on-boeing-737s-max-issued-ntsb-says-critical-flight-controls-could-jam

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Link to NTSB NEWS RELEASE - NTSB Issues Urgent Safety Recommendations on Boeing 737 Rudder System

[JohnSJ]

1. How about grounding them until the cause has been identified and

fixed?

[Goonch]

2. 👇👇👇👁️👁️

.webp

[oldsoftie]

3. Boeing has really shit the bed the past few years. WAKE UP or Airbus will bankrupt you

[apnu]

6. Take a look at the book 'Flying Blind'

Boeing has been wrecked by McDonnell-Douglas exes and Jack Welch devotees. What’s happening has been coming for a long time.

[hatrack]

4. Well done, you stupid, bean-counting MBA fucks . . .

Better bail out while there's still money with which to gild the parachutes.

[VMA131Marine]

5. For those immediately blaming Boeing

who honestly have lost the benefit of doubt in cases like this, if you read the NTSB analysis, the problem has been traced to a part made by supplier Collins Aerospace (a subsidiary of RTX formerly Raytheon Technologies) that was assembled incorrectly during manufacture. So, for this issue Boeing does not seem to be at fault.
The incorrectly manufactured part allows moisture to get in that freezes at altitude and the ice that forms results in the rudder jam.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

7. They made the part according to Boeing specs

Poor Boeing design

[VMA131Marine]

8. The part was assembled incorrectly

And Collins designed the part.

[maxsolomon]

10. NOT GOOD ENOUGH

it's always the fault of Boeing Management.

did you not get the DU memo?

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. How many flight controls aren't critical?

[sakabatou]

11. Just like that one roller coaster in Tycoon

"The ride never ends!"