737 Boeing Airplanes have loose bolts (UPDATE: Boeing not install any bolts to begin with)

[RI]

I still find it darkly humorous that the very morning of the Alaska Airlines incident, Boeing was in the news requesting exemptions from FAA safety regulations.

[quesaisje]

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/111860684509813950

A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable  number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.

Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”

[Blue3]

UPDATE:

Boeing never installed bolts to begin with

So for this particular recent incident where the door blew off… it turns out it was never bolted to begin with.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faulty-door-panel-alaska-airlines-flight-no-bolts-installed-ntsb-says-rcna136416

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

UPDATE:

Boeing never installed bolts to begin with

So for this particular recent incident where the door blew off… it turns out it was never bolted to begin with.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faulty-door-panel-alaska-airlines-flight-no-bolts-installed-ntsb-says-rcna136416

Genius strategy.

“We need this plane in service quickly, but our documents suggest we need to install these bolts first. What should we do?”

“Trust in the Force Agile, you must. Succeed or fail fast, there is no delay.”

[morgieb]

I know it isn’t easy, but someone really needs to get a boycott going for Boeing. I know they haven’t lost an aircraft since that Ethiopian Airlines flight, but their lackadaisical approach to air safety is alarming.

[Storr]

I know it isn’t easy, but someone really needs to get a boycott going for Boeing. I know they haven’t lost an aircraft since that Ethiopian Airlines flight, but their lackadaisical approach to air safety is alarming.

I want a strong US aviation industry, but Boeing has become way too complacent in recent years.

I doubt Russian planes will become any kind of competitor, but maybe the rise of COMAC will light a fire under Boeing and force them to get things together.