There was an early news story where the subcontractor claimed that it wasn’t their responsibility to tighten the door plug bolts before delivering the entire fuselage subassembly to Boeing.
I haven’t been keeping up with this news in detail, so it certainly seems plausible to me that some planes were found to be missing bolts entirely.
I remember reading the same thing, and iirc they were right. The subcontractor builds the fuselage and delivers it to boeing.
Boeing then opens up whatever doors and plugs will make it easier to install the interior. Once the interior is installed, they’re supposed reinstall and secure all the doors and plugs. Because Boeing is going to be opening them all up, they don’t bother to fully secure them.
That said, it sounds like a process that’s just asking for miscommunication. If you expect the part to be removed, just deliver the part separately. If you put the part in it’s place, then fully install it and secure it.
It’s a pretty standard process to have some parts installed “loose” and tightened at a later time. It could be to ensure fitment, add rigidity or even just to protect the mating surfaces from the elements during transport.
Also it’s probably not just because Boeing is gonna open them up that they don’t fully secure them. I haven’t seen the specs but it’s quite common to have a reinspection requirements when disassembling something that was fully installed for stress and damage.
Pretty much nothing in aerospace is left to communications. The assembly manuals are not just complete, they are painfully exhaustive.
This one said the informal log showed they had to remove the door module ( thus bolts ) but no record of reinstalling them…and they run two logging systems so not all info is captured in the other.
If I remember right, these fuselage assemblies get transported on a giant beluga-looking airlift airplane. Where the whole nose is the plane opens up to swallow fuselage sections whole.
If you ship the door plugs uninstalled, you’re probably looking at a while separate shipment.
This one said the informal log showed they had to remove the door module ( thus bolts ) but no record of reinstalling them…and they run two logging systems so not all info is captured in the other.
The latest iteration of the data I’ve found is that Boeing and Spirit (the subcontractor) used different QC systems that weren’t fully compatible; one of the areas of incompatibility is around manufacturing and maintenance procedures of the plug door, and nobody put a process in place to account for that (if you’re in tech, you know that means it was considered “tech debt” that can be fixed “later”).
I've never understood why people have such a hard time with the trolley problem. Obviously, if you pre-emptively move that lone guy over to the rail with the five, you can hit all six at once to maximize your score. Just requires a bit of setup.
If you use some sandpaper you can get them to align nicely. Star woth higher grits and work down, first do some vertical passes, then horizontal. Thank me later
Good to see the true feelings of this community reflected in such quick fashion. ‘That one quote’ is a pretty lengthy diatribe, and it’s far from his only time. But the sick comeback makes white moderates feel better about themselves
He never stereotyped whites as a distinct singular identity that I can recall, it was always about their relation to maintaining inequality. One of his most impactful actions was convincing white and black unions to strike together, and that the fight for jobs and equality was one poor whites and blacks needed to share. In “The Other America” he constantly references poor white populations who share in the struggle.
MLK Jr never divided people by race like this, he thought that was one of the Three Evils plaguing American society.
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn."
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to re-educate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.”
“The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”
“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”.”
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