In the last few moments, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered the temporary grounding of 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft operated by U.S airlines or in U.S territory.
This fuselage failure actually happened where a door could be in the future. These locations are called plugs, if an airliner decides to add the door at some point in the future the plug is removed and a door is added in its place. In this instance the plug was more of a cork and popped upon pressurization.
The plug was more of a screw top. It’s a plug in function, not in installation. Boeing probably deserves a lot of shit for this in it’s pile of cost-cutting Max approval schemes but let’s be accurate
The plane experienced a fuselage failure where the door blew out and was delivered something like two months ago.
This fuselage failure actually happened where a door could be in the future. These locations are called plugs, if an airliner decides to add the door at some point in the future the plug is removed and a door is added in its place. In this instance the plug was more of a cork and popped upon pressurization.
The plug was more of a screw top. It’s a plug in function, not in installation. Boeing probably deserves a lot of shit for this in it’s pile of cost-cutting Max approval schemes but let’s be accurate