Originally Posted by
Excargodog
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US regulators are formally seeking comment on proposed fire-safety conditions to accept the large aft centre fuel-tank design for Airbus’s long-range A321XLR twinjet.
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Can't help but wonder given the pi$$-poor regulating of Boeing they've been doing why they would worry about something that MIGHT happen in the event of a statistically unlikely event. I mean door plugs are pressurized on damn near every flight. Failing to bolt them in place makes every flight a potential disaster. How often are you going to have a crash that would be otherwise survivable but for the loss of integrity of an integral aft fuselage fuel tank?
Let us not forget, there’s only ever been one hull loss of a 320 series airplane in North America and it involved birds taking out both engines and everyone walked away.
Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Sadly, yes. Boeing has been slowly going to cr@p for well over a decade. It won't be fixed in just a year or two.
Boeing went to **** the day of the merger, it just took this long for the MBA/Wall st crowd to finally over shadow the really good engineers and assembly workers that (used to) work there.