A month after the door-severing incident on Alaska Airlines’ 737 MAX-9, five years after two fatal crashes that grounded the plane for 22 months, Boeing is once again facing production problems with its Boeing 737 Max.
Plane maker Boeing said on Sunday that a supplier had informed it of a fit issue with the fuselages of some 737 MAX aircraft, which, while not posing an immediate danger to the planes in flight, should require intervention in about fifty examples that have not yet been delivered. It appears that an employee of supplier Spirit AeroSystems noticed that two holes in the fuselage window frame were not drilled to the exact specifications of the aircraft.
“Recycling of about 50 undelivered aircraft”
“If this does not create an immediate safety concern and all Boeing 737s can continue to operate safely, we estimate that we will have to convert approximately 50 of the undelivered aircraft,” Boeing said in a letter to its employees. According to some reports, this defect has now been found in 22 fuselages, or almost half of the 47 aircraft tested at that time on the production line. A defect that may have been present on some in-service 737 aircraft.
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Boeing said the additional work should delay deliveries in the short term. Already this week, the aircraft manufacturer announced in an effort to improve the quality of its aircraft that it was going to take a “pause” in the ramp-up of 737 MAX production, which is expected to accelerate by 2025. This increase in production has begun. that the 737 MAX 7 and 737 MAX 10 will soon receive certification.
This new shutdown comes as Boeing received 391 total orders for the MAX 7 and 1,180 total orders for the MAX 10, which were originally scheduled to begin deliveries in 2023. But faced with uncertainty, several companies have just dropped them from their 2024 schedules, such as United. and Southwest.
Source: Le Parisien
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