Alaska Airlines plane may have left the Boeing factory without bolts to secure the door plug. A couple of things are going on here. 1. Why don’t they shift their manufacturing and procurement practices? Only build a fuselage when an airline places an order. That way, there wouldn’t be any plugs to install. If the order didn’t require that hole, then don’t build it that way. 2. Speakin’ as one who worked at US Army Equipment Rebuild Depots in South Korea and Okinawa, rebuilding equipment that was sent back to Vietnam, I dealt with Quality Control Inspectors on a daily basis. From my experience, getting a QC approval stamp on a production item that was completely missing its retaining bolts is hard to wrap my head around. Boeing needs to get a handle on why and how this happened, or their plane sales (and stock) will drop like a rock.
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