Boeing 737s Have Faulty Wing Parts

According to new reports, Boeing 737 MAX and also 737NG aircraft have been found to have faulty wing parts that can lead to cracks. Boeing and the FAA have issued immediate replacements of these parts to take place before further damage is done. In today's video, I take a look at the new report.

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[aqimjulayhi]

Oh boy. Not a good year for Boeing. Is Boeing and its suppliers slowly getting exposed for cutting costs or what?

[politicalhorizon]

My aunt used to work for Boeing. She used to wire parts of the plane specially in crowded areas as she is small.
She said she was surprised Boeing were so safe because as time went by more emphasis was on production and less on quality.
She left Boeing a couple years ago.

[jeremyn]

I’m a flight attendant and the grounding of the max has impacted our operation tremendously, delays, reroutes, cancellations, long days, are an every day thing. Flying public, be nice to your crew. :)

[tamikotaylor]

Actually being a fan of Boeing and eventually wanting to fly a Boeing aircraft in my pilot career I’m now actually a bit iffy about them as a company on the hold. Don’t have the same trust in them anymore :(

[adamhall]

Honestly, the US needs to drop this self regulation bs.

[DCCombi]

It's all about receiving the cheapest parts, you get what you pay for many times even less. Ask yourself why did they notice on Friday some of these leading edge slat tracks where not properly heat treated, you mean they never noticed the ones they already installed where not treated? Cost, Schedule & Shareholder Value says it all!

[nodlimax]

Boeing: "We want to re-establish trust in the 737 MAX"
*faulty parts being discovered in 737 MAX*
Boeing:

[supaavtr]

unfortunately Boeing rushed this version of the 737

[twany]

This is what you call karma for all of the inspectors that were fired or relocated for trying to do there job. Boeing rushed to get this aircraft out... Ready or not here we come style.

[JA-uigg]

Time for a clean sheet of paper and scrap this ancient design.

[vladsnape]

Of course the faulty parts are Boeings problem! There is an excellent documentary made a few years ago by Al Jazeera which has interviews with ex Boeing employees, including quality inspectors. They said that when they received faulty parts from suppliers, they were told by senior Boeing management not to reject the parts, and instead the mechanics were forced to make the parts fit, e.g. by re-drilling the parts. This is obviously an incredibly dangerous and bad practice. This is the practice in both Boeing factories in the states, and affects more than just the 737. People should just not fly on Boeing. One of the Boeing staff admitted that they would never fly on a Boeing plane, because he knows how badly it is manufactured.

[annecy]

Hey DJ, no need to apologize for the nature of the news. As an adult, when I read the title of the video and voluntarily view it, I know already it's not going to be the best news. News are news, some are good, some are bad. We don't need an apology for the bad ones.

[andypaul]

The problem is obviously with quality control. When you focus on volume quality always suffers, I can't think of many companies that are able to push product out at high volume and still maintain quality control, using the same production and staff levels.

[ckx]

When you focus and prioritise profit above all else, you get this situation. First MCAS, then substandard parts, flavoured by outsourcing FAA certification to the manufacturer, seasoned by no accountability. The aircraft industry enjoys the best safety record because we PAID for it for several decades. Deregulation means increased competition and lower fares, but at what price. I do not doubt Boeing to be the only manufacturer sacrificing safety, quality, training and reputation for market share, but what we have today is the result. The Max aircraft is a textbook lesson, just as the TARGET multi- billion dollar loss into Canada; if we repeat the mistakes we should have learned from history, we deserve to fail. Except of course, innocent people were killed as a result.

[philhmp]

It's time to put this 51 year old design out to pasture. Yes the 737 has been a good aircraft but it's initial short landing gear design wasn't designed for today's large diameter engines which is why Boeing are in this mess now trying to hide the flaws with this MCAS patch. MCAS is essentially a last minute after thought implemented to compensate for the 737 Max's undesirable flight characteristics caused by placing the engines in the wrong place on the low wing. All because the 737's short stubby landing gear won't permit the new large diameter engines being placed in the correct balanced position on the airframe.
It's back to the drawing board for Boeing on a new ground up design to replace the old outdated 737 type.
Flogging a dead horse won't cut it anymore.

[gpierre]

Talk about the cherry on top for the 737Max and now NG. What is going on inside Boeing these days, First the MCAS on the max and now the slats. Before Boeing gave the go ahead to mass produce these aircraft didn't they test every major component during the test phase of their new 737 before mass producing these jets? Talk about complacency.

[stuartd]

Absolutely no connection with RR Trent issues, everything to do with Boeing quality control issues..!

[damonreynolds]

Between deaths, QC issues, punishing whistleblowers and public missteps, Boeing needs new leadership.

[toms]

The Slats...or lead edge slats are the wing panels that extend forward and down from the leading edge of the wing during flap extension. These panels typically extend with the first increment of flap extension. That said, the defect noted(slat rail/track) may cause the slat not to deploy, and/or shed debris in the worst case scenario if the slat rail/track breaks apart. In any case, the issue would cause a flight emergency, but would not be serious enough to being down the plane. In any other year, aside from the MCAS debacle, this issue would be nothing other than a minor footnote in the news. Boeing would send out a service bulletin, and the FAA an airworthy directive to correct the problem as soon as possible. There is no imminent danger of failure for the affected 737NGs flying, nor has there been one far as I know. It sounds like the issue was discovered during a quality control check with the supplier. Given the number of 737s out there, this is a relatively low number of aircraft. In this case Boeing employees were astute and doing their jobs well. Don't beat up Boeing for this issue. This stuff does happen....even with the saintly Airbus organization...which apparently does no wrong.

[hugostiglitz]

This is a normal problem, this happens to aircraft all the time. You get service bulletins and airworthyness directives regularly. If it wasn't for the Max 8 situation you'd never have known about it!