How can it be puzzling? It has “Boeing” in the title…
Huh. They just fall apart sitting there on the tarmac. I wonder what the problem might be?
I seem to remember a few different whistleblowers stepping forward to claim that Boeing was dangerously cutting corners, but then they all died and I didn’t hear any more about that.
Gee… sure is a puzzle…
I think those issues were only for specific series like 737-MAX. Dreamliners have a pretty good safety record, except for that one crash in India where everyone except one guy died.
The one I flew to London was pretty sweet, though. They have a carbon fiber body which allows both a higher cabin pressure and a better ride due to more flexible wings. Very nice lighting and automatic tinting on the windows too.
Dreamliners had some nightmare problems with their batteries back when they first came out.
It was the first use of lithium ion chemistry on airplanes. The batteries kept catching on fire. At one point a battery fire started on a taxiway with a plane full of revenue passengers.
Boeing had to design a heavy, fireproof lock box to contain the batteries. It completely negated the weight savings from using lithium over NiCad and then some.
They also had a lot of manufacturing problems in the beginning trying to stop the carbon fiber from cracking.
So the side fell off? The front fell off yesterday…
