https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/faa-says-southwest-plane-with-boeing-engine-cowling-fell-off-during-takeoff-2024-04-07/WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - An engine cover on a Southwest Airlines (LUV.N), opens new tab Boeing 737-800 fell off on Sunday during takeoff in Denver and struck the wing flap, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to open an investigation.No one was injured and Southwest Flight 3695 returned safely to Denver International Airport around 8:15 a.m. local time (1415 GMT) on Sunday and was towed to the gate after losing the engine cowling.The Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab aircraft bound for Houston Hobby airport with 135 passengers and six crew members aboard climbed to about 10,300 feet (3,140 m) before returning 25 minutes after takeoff.Passengers arrived in Houston on another Southwest plane about four hours behind schedule. Southwest said maintenance teams are reviewing the aircraft.The plane entered service in June 2015, according to FAA records. Boeing referred questions to Southwest.The 737-800 is in the prior generation of the best-selling 737 known as the 737 NG, which in turn was replaced by the 737 MAX.Southwest declined to say when the plane's engine had last had maintenance.ABC News aired a video posted on social media platform X of the ripped engine cover flapping in the wind with a torn Southwest logo.Boeing has come under intense criticism since a door plug panel tore off a new Alaska Airlines (ALK.N), opens new tab 737 MAX 9 jet at 16,000 feet on Jan. 5.In the aftermath of that incident, the FAA grounded the MAX 9 for several weeks, barred Boeing from increasing the MAX production rate and ordered it to develop a comprehensive plan to address "systemic quality-control issues" within 90 days.Boeing production has fallen below the maximum 38 MAX planes per month the FAA is allowing. The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the MAX 9 incident.
In December, the FAA proposed mandating engine housing inspections and component replacements on Boeing 737 NG airplanes after a 2018 Southwest fatal fan blade incident.The directives would require operators to inspect and replace certain components on the engine cowling by July 2028. The National Transportation Safety Board called on Boeing in 2019 to redesign the fan cowling structure after the incident.The FAA is investigating several other recent engine issues on Southwest's fleet of Boeing planes.A Southwest 737-800 flight on Thursday aborted takeoff and taxied back to the gate at Lubbock airport in Texas after the crew reported engine issues. The FAA is also investigating a March 25 Southwest 737 flight that returned to the Austin airport in Texas after the crew reported a possible engine issue.A March 22 Southwest 737-800 flight returned to Fort Lauderdale airport after the crew reported an engine issue. It is also being reviewed by the FAA.
All this hate for Boeing lately.What did they donate to the Trump campaign?Did they forget to pay their extortion money to journos?If so they should see how that worked out for Monsanto back in the day.
>>1285405No, some parasitic capitalists got on the Boeing board several years ago and turned one of the world's foremost engineering companies into an "efficient business", i.e. "do everything as cheap as possible, fuck your employees and fuck the end user". So their planes started crashing and falling apart. That's why people hate them, because they're a high profile example of everything wrong with the world.
>>1285407Yup, the >>1285407 comment nails this problem down to a "T"
>>1285407>government offers business extra money to hire DEI employees and to participate in DEI programs>company hires DEI employees (which you don't have to pay as much) and get free government money for having DEI employees on staff>DEI employees wreak havoc on quality control>"the problem isn't DEI or the government, it's capitalism"Mmmm, no. This is the result of increased regulation and government intervention in the economy. As per usual.
>>1285416Except the Boeing problems started years before DEI, you fucking idiot. They've been having problems since the late 2000s. You can read about what the whistleblowers have said but you won't since you're a direction-brained faggot
>>1285416>Mmmm, no. This is the result of increased regulation and government intervention in the economy. As per usual.The OP is a troll and is an attention fag.It don't want anons to call him a namefag, because its fragile ego will be damaged, even though nobody knows who it is, but it's too stupid to know this(it may be a child).But you are even stupider, anon
>>1285418I'm going to agree with both of you.Vulture capitalists generally accept the UN/WEF ESG principal of DEI to attract retarded stock buyers who use a score they don't understand fully to make investment decisions.
>>1285422Yes, absolutely. DEI is a problem when it comes to investors and quality but that doesn't mean a company can't be ruined by shitty financial decisions all the same.
Sara Browen, VP of DEI at Boeing, started her position in either late 2020 or early 2021, before which there was no such position at boeing
>>1285423As long as you recognize DEI and ESG being generally shitty vulture capitalist financial decisions. I'm good with agreeing.
>>1285424I'M OUTRAGED!!1 SHE OUGHT TO APOLOGIZE!!11
How is this a Boeing problem and not a Southwest one?We dont even know what happened with the cowling.
>>1285450Trump fired the person who would have prevented this and replaced him with a crony
>>1285450It'd be a southwest problem if Boeing planes flown by Alaska and United didn't also have major fuckin issues, not to mention the two high profile 737 MAX crashes a few years back. It speaks to Boeing's shoddy workmanship moreso than poor maintenance from airlines (though I assume there's some amount of that going on too)
>>1285452You bring up two issues that were caused by software as justification for something as potentially simple as fastening the cowling. Not the best argument, dipshit.You mention other major issues, at least one that could directly be the fault of Boeing. Here, a gold star for you, don't spend it all at ony0tsce.
>>1285450It's a DEI problem all across the aviation industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeTOfQSelo0
>>1285454>two issues that were caused by softwareWhos software was it?
>>1285454is boeing paying you or are you just that contrarian?
>>1285418And guess what the government did, as they always do best, as soon as you give them an iota of compliance? They accelerated their destruction and soon their demise. This isn't being a direction-brain; this is just a stone cold fact of reality. You also act as if the two issues are mutually exclusive and can't happen together, which you are a massive faggot for implying that. Go to hell along with the government
>>1285456>Check this dipshit, software = hardware now
>>1285467Wasn't his entire argument is that Boeing is fucking up?The software is made by Boeing, the hardware is made by Boeing.Check mate, retard
>>1285457Are you so blinded by hate that you can't think for yourself?There is nothing contrarian about pointing out the obvious, you fucking troll.
>>1285468Wow, you really like diving into the shit pile.
>>1285502>Implying I'm going to dive into your shit pileNope, just pointing out the fact your swimming in shit
>>1285416>>1285385>Planes built bad cause black peopleImagine having your entire brain captured by a political ideology this utterly and completely.
>>1285503Damn but you are reading comprehension is horrible. It is your shit. Your inability to recognize the responsibilities of Boeing and Southwest are at this point in time not all that surprising. You been swimming in your own shit for so long your brain has turned to shit. It's all there right in your replies.
are people claiming that southwest runs its own software on boeing airplanes like it's a PC and you install your own shitware onto it
>>1285520No, just that their mechanics are more than likely responsible for securing an engine cowling.Obviously this changes if there is a design defect.
>>1285504Diversity hires in general really (anyone who isn't exclusively a white European man) will destroy everything in sight
>>1285523Wrong board >>>/pol/
>>1285523I'm genuinely sorry for whatever happened to make you this way
>>1285542He's right though. Aside from ignoring Asians.Not the Indians eurofags call Asians either. The squints from the far east.
>>1285556>He's right though. I'm equally sorry for whatever happened to you as well. I'm assuming both of you were radicalized in similar traumatic incidences.
>>1285558Sociology wasn't specifically tragic, aside from the fact that it forced me to grow up and abandon some of my childish ideals.
>>1285565Sociology didn't make you a braindead /pol/lack. If you were intelligent enough, sociology should have made you the opposite.
>>1285566Only a literal retard thinks sociology makes anyone intelligent. It's pseudoscience. Most sociology studies can't be reproduces, by definition, making them unscientific
>>1285574>Only a literal retard thinks sociology makes anyone intelligentYou're correct. My sentence was that if you were already intelligent then the study of sociology would've given you the toolset to reject retarded /pol/ ideology, not embrace it. Nobody who is a braindead /pol/lack also understands that sociology is and how it applies to complex social systems. These two things are contradictory. They cannot exist in the same mind. >It's pseudoscience. Most sociology studies can't be reproduces, by definition, making them unscientificI have neither the time or the inclination to explain to you why you're an absolute knuckle dragging retard. The short of it is that soft sciences is science. The world runs on soft sciences. Anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, history - all data based disciplines. That's not even a remotely controversial statement. The only people who disagree are, unironically, /pol/ retards.
>>1285576>The world runs on soft sciences. Anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, historyPeople who think this are generally poor
>>1285576Also, the world runs on finance, business and engineering.If it weren't for those three you'd be enjoying your humanities and studying history in a cave by staring at paintings on the walls
>>1285576>I can't refute anything he said nor defend fraudulent soiences and give up: the postFixed
>If it’s Boeing I’m not going.
>>1285566>sociology should have made you the opposite.It's actually more like reverse brainwashing than the regular brainwashing you're used to.Why would you assume it would be the opposite. It's literally the study of people and cultures.
Blame either the troon software engineers, or the DEI hires. It's probably both.
>troons troons troons
>>1285675Considering you're probably the faggot who ruins the board by shit posting nonsense, and obsessing over /pol/ it's weird you'd complain about "troon" being used as an expression unless you were currently pumped full of hormones, and wearing a dress or masquerading as a short dickless man.
>>1285679>da tr00000000nz
>>1285679>Considering you're probably the faggot who ruins the board by shit posting nonsensewtf do you think you're doing anon? blaming literally everything on da trooonz is fucking nonsense.
>>1285683Lol coming from the people who have blamed literally everything over the last 8 years on "muh russia" is laughable
>>1285674>>1285679>>1285726What mental illness is this?
>>1285757Responses to you being a queer, probably.
>>1285462You're speaking in vague phrases with no fucking backup to anything you're saying. I'm not implying anything except that you're a know-it-all mouthbreather. DEI policies have only been gaining ground in the last decade. Boeing have had former employees coming forward for upwards of 25 years complaining about how the board of directors went from having engineers on it to having slick business school types that wanted to maximize revenue over everything. Thus leading to a decline in quality in other areas of the company, including manufacturing. DEI can cause companies to lose face and revenue, but in this case Boeing was already fucked up before DEI came along.You stupid fucking mongoloid.
>>1285576Despite how stupid that other anon is, he is absolutely correct in that there is a replication crisis in studies for sociology and psychology. Past studies that are repeated come back with different results despite other factors all being controlled. Soft sciences are called soft because of this. It doesn't mean they don't have value, but they are objectively less reliable than hard sciences.
>>1285576Uhmm, back to pleddit ?
>>1286124Still a DEI issues since investor follow these indices, for ex. BlackRock openly admit about financing companies for DEI n shit. If you factor capitalists obsessing over money and the fact that these indices grant you more money with no actual work then failure is assured. 100% societal subversion through economy.Go back to plebbit already
