Originally Posted by
Chuck D
Have any at all? Do they know whether this is isolated to those specific plugs or whether it's a broad QC process that failed to catch that and was responsible for far more?
It's starting to look like the 2 bolts that are installed to keep the latch from moving were missing. Looks like the design is fine, but you have to install the bolts....
It'll be an inspection process to see if the bolts are there and properly torqued. Hopefully, the process has been fixed at Boeing, and they won't find any more problems. I'm surprised, if the bolts were not installed, it lasted 145 flights.