[KillingJoke]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

"guy forgot to check the latches on the cowl"

If only pilots were required to, oh I dunno, walk around the aircraft checking things like this... like, maybe there could be a list of things to check.

Hey, we could even call it the "walkaround" using a "checklist"...

That would be neat!

[houseoftechno]

Originally Posted by KillingJoke ↗

If only pilots were required to, oh I dunno, walk around the aircraft checking things like this... like, maybe there could be a list of things to check.

Hey, we could even call it the "walkaround" using a "checklist"...

That would be neat!

[pervM]

Originally Posted by ride ↗

After all these "Boeing Aircraft Problems", it is probably time to look at some of these mishaps not as "Boeing", but "Maintenance" or "Flight Operations" issues as well. It is easy to jump on the media hype bandwagon and blame Boeing Aircraft design as the root of the problem, yet some of these issues simply stem from lack of/shoddy maintenance practices, supervisory/QA inspections not being done (we called them "Pencil Whipped" in the Air Force), or a switch being "inadvertently actuated by a flight attendant", which is a flight operations issue, if that is indeed what happened in one instance.

Underlying reason is ironically very similar to that plane with parts coming off: Shareholders cannibalizing the company piece by piece for short term profit margins. This is what happens when a company loses sight on the fact that end user/customer is the single most important part of any company, not the shareholders.

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