What is Boeing doing to regain confidence in the Boeing 737 MAX?

In a letter to employees at Boeing, Mr. Stan Deal - President of Boeing's commercial aircraft division said that the company will deploy a team of experts to the manufacturing facility of Spirit AeroSystems - the unit that manufactured and installed the side door that was blown off in the above incident, to check the manufacturing process of Spirit before the fuselage parts are shipped to Boeing's manufacturing facility in Washington state.

The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX, whose side door burst open mid-flight, is being inspected by the US National Transportation Safety Board in Oregon, USA (Photo: Reuters).

In addition, Boeing teams will inspect 50 other points in Spirit's manufacturing process. At the same time, Boeing and Spirit will allow airlines to inspect the manufacturing process themselves at 737 MAX factories.

In a statement to Reuters, a Spirit spokesman said the group is working with Boeing to implement the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Quality Management System during the manufacturing process of the 737 MAX 9 aircraft.

According to Mr. Deal, Boeing will increase the dissemination of quality management to employees and hire outside partners to independently evaluate the company's production process.

In the letter, Mr. Deal made it clear that Boeing's additional quality control measures are completely separate from the ongoing FAA investigation related to the incident of an Alaska Airlines plane's side door opening.

However, before the new 737 MAX 9 aircraft are delivered, Boeing will conduct a thorough inspection of the side door latches as required by the FAA.

In addition to the above measures, Boeing leaders also said that the company plans to increase supervision of the 737 MAX production process. Accordingly, the number of quality control staff in the group has increased by 20% since 2019. Boeing also plans to increase investment in quality control units.

Boeing's new move comes as the FAA announced on January 12 that it would extend the grounding of 171 MAX 9 aircraft for safety inspections. According to the agency, after 40 aircraft are inspected, the FAA will evaluate the results and decide whether it is safe enough to allow these aircraft to resume operations.

Both United Airlines and Alaska Airlines - the two carriers operating the 737 MAX 9 aircraft in the US - have canceled flights served by this aircraft until January 16.

Alaska Airlines said it has discussed quality improvement measures with Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and Boeing management.

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