2024-01-28 05:28:00
On the 26th local time, Alaska Airlines issued a statement stating that the company had completed the final inspection of the first batch of Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. The first 737 MAX 9 aircraft will fly from Seattle to San Diego on the afternoon of the 26th local time and resume operations.
△Screenshot of Alaska Airlines official website
According to reports, each 737 MAX 9 aircraft will only resume operations after it completes strict inspections and is deemed airworthy in accordance with FAA requirements. Individual inspections of each aircraft take approximately 12 hours.
△Screenshot of Alaska Airlines official website
Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft factory team stopped work at the Renton factory in Washington state, USA, for 15 hours on the 25th local time. During this period, aircraft production and other operations were suspended, and about 10,000 employees held group discussions on quality and safety improvements. According to previous reports, Boeing’s other commercial production facilities and manufacturing plants will also be suspended due to quality issues in the next few weeks.
On the 5th of this month, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 passenger plane had an emergency door fall off in mid-air, which became the focus of global attention. Subsequently, more Boeing models were exposed to be in danger during operation, which doubled the pressure on Boeing.
△On January 5, the emergency hatch of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 fell off during flight.
Zhang Tengjun, deputy director of the U.S. Institute of China Institute of International StudiesIn an interview with China Central Radio and Television Station Global Information Broadcasting, he believed that management problems led to defects in the production and manufacturing of Boeing aircraft, and relevant US government departments also failed to fulfill their regulatory responsibilities.
A preliminary investigation by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration concluded that there was a problem with the manufacturing process of the Boeing passenger plane. The production and manufacturing of Boeing aircraft is outsourced, with relevant components produced by different suppliers and finally handed over to Boeing for final assembly. The supplier’s ability to control quality has become key.
The recent frequent accidents at Boeing fully demonstrate that Boeing’s suppliers have problems with quality control issues and are overly pursuing the reduction of production costs and the acceleration of production. This is actually a problem that Boeing has always had. There are huge loopholes in Boeing’s outsourcing links.
Boeing’s management also made some small moves to avoid monitoring and management issues, ignoring or ignoring a series of problems in internal management.
According to the financial report released by Boeing, as of the third quarter of 2023, Boeing is insolvent, with total assets of US$134.3 billion and total liabilities of US$151 billion. Zhang Tengjun pointed out that as a leading “Made in America” brand, Boeing’s problems reflect the rapid decline of the overall manufacturing industry in the United States.
Boeing maximizes production profits by deploying its supply chain to different regions, especially regions where labor or raw materials are relatively cheap. This is a strategy that has been pursued by the U.S. manufacturing industry for a long time, but it has led to the outflow and relocation of a large number of manufacturing industries in the United States during the process of globalization, resulting in the hollowing out of the domestic manufacturing industry in the United States. Over time, the manufacturing capacity of the United States has gradually declined. At the same time, the quality control of existing products is also not as good as before.
The series of problems that have arisen at Boeing show that the United States is rapidly slipping from its position as a manufacturing power. This is also an important reason why the middle and lower-class blue-collar workers in the United States are now unable to obtain relevant job opportunities and are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with national governance. Boeing The problem also exposed the economic and social problems of the United States from one aspect.
Material source丨Global Information Broadcasting “Live World”
Headquarters reporter丨Yang Zhuoying
Editor丨Yin Meimei Hou Chen Yang Nan
Signing review丨Hou Chen and Cai Yaoyuan
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