Originally Posted by
rickair7777
A350?
Some mitigation in their favor... they may be afraid to commit to a clean-sheet design ($$$) at this moment while there's a real looming possibility that carbon hysteria will drive a need for drastic changes to current operations, which could include radical technology and designs. It would suck to make the multi- $B R&D investment now only to have the new design outlawed and have to repeat the whole process in ten or fewer years.
But with all that said, I think this door incident is just going to come down to a very localized QA issue and will be easy to fix. Door frames are not hard technology, I'm sure the design is just fine, and has been for a long time. The install work was probably done on a Fri afternoon in a weed-legal state.
This is by far the 2 most absurd statements I've ever read on this site. In what world do you think there is going to be not only a consensus on climate change, but to make it so strict that commerical aircraft that are already designed and built are banned? And you think a drug tested maintainer is more to blame than Boeing cutting costs and deciding to pay new A&P's $20 a hour to work in Seattle?
If you truly believe that I think you're the one smoking the ol wacky tobaccy.