We’ve been learning more and more recently about the maintenance and potential safety issues for Boeing’s fleet of 737 MAX 9 aircraft, none of it comforting. A passenger discovered some screws missing from the wing of the plane he was waiting aboard. This thankfully prompted a thorough manufacturing and safety review by Boeing, because they have continued to discover more issues. This time it isn’t with the current fleet of 737 Max aircraft in service, but with as many as fifty of the ones still coming out of production and scheduled for delivery. It appears that some number of them had extra holes drilled in the frame near a window where they should not have been. And those planes were almost ready to go out the door. (NY Post)
A Boeing supplier has notified the embattled company that it has discovered mis-drilled holes on the fuselages of about 50 undelivered 737 MAX…
