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Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff
(www.theguardian.com)
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Between door bolts missing, virgin airlines missing wing bolts, this nose cone, etc
It almost feels like some kind of related systemic error in the very thorough maintenance documentation required for aircrafts, or a large scale sabotage of some sort.
Any regulatory agencies that enforce this sort of stuff being defunded, understaffed, or de-toothed in the last 4-8 years?
That's what this smells like, and we should really be getting ourselves ready for more of this in other industries.
I don't know about the regulatory side, but Boeing gutted their experienced engineering corps starting about 10 years ago. In the pursuit of profit of course. I think we're seeing the effects of that finally coming to the fore.
My understanding of the role of the regulatory agencies for stuff like this is that they can ground a model of plane if they believe there's a systemic issue. Like we saw with the MAX.
It feels like they're using the Lego sorting robots to assemble the kit for a plane...