The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Monday said more than 40 foreign operators of Boeing 737 airplanes could be using aircraft with rudder components that may pose safety risks.
The NTSB last week issued urgent safety recommendations about the potential for a jammed rudder control system on some Boeing 737 airplanes after a February incident involving a United Airlines flight.
The NTSB also disclosed on Monday that it has learned two foreign operators suffered similar incidents in 2019 involving rollout guidance actuators.
Didn’t Boeing merge with the company who built the MD-80 airplanes ultimately famous for a really bad elevator control?
Correlative if not a causative influence.
Not just merged but McDonnell Douglass took over their management and slowly drove out the Boeing engineers who used to run it. MD planes were notoriously pasted together POS and it took them about 20 years for that design philosophy to completely takeover Boeing. We’re now seeing the results of that mismanagement in the most spectacular ways.
Imo Boeing should just be federalized at this point, they manufacturer so much for our gov already it would be justified to ensure safety of our military and space programs.
This isn’t even the first time Boeing has had major rudder issues with the 737. Last round happened before the merger. They tried to cover it up then, too, IIRC.