The issue is not that the parts aren’t titanium, its that there isn’t a paper trail documenting the titanium.
This is an issue, because improperly forged titanium can have issues that makes it unsuitably weak for its intended purpose. Having documentation showing where the materials came from, when it was inspected for defects and when it was manufactured is critical for safety.
United flight 232 had an engine explode in part due to defective titanium. This is a real safety concern.
Though the headline says boeing, the article mentions these undocumented parts being found in airbus planes as well. Its an industry problem, not a Boeing specific one.
What? Read the article? Are you fucking crazy?
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I brought up that flight to highlight the importance of these paper trails, as defective titanium can fail catastrophically.
The engine exploded “in part due to” the engine manufacturer’s failure in quality control, but also the airline’s maintenance department failing to find the fatigue cracks during maintenance checks.
Boeing was not involved in flight 232, the plane was a DC-10.
Boeing was not involved in flight 232, the plane was a DC-10.
At the time no, but McDonnell-Douglas made the DC-10 and after their merger with Boeing in 1997 has been largely responsible for the downfall of Boeing, by bringing their corporate culture over.
The engine exploded “in part due to” the engine manufacturer’s failure in quality control, but also the airline’s maintenance department failing to find the fatigue cracks during maintenance checks.
IIRC the type of fatigue crack wouldn’t have been noticed by the inspection methods of the time during its last check. Inspections were improved as a result of the investigation into United 232.
There needs to be a new rule where when a headline asks why something sucks ass so tragically the answer is capitalism. It’s always capitalism.
Well you see, when an executive loves money very much…
“Trytanium”
“Titanium is how much? Fuck it use the fake stuff, I need a new super yacht. What’s the worst that can happen, we have to assassinate some whistle-blowers? Hahahahahahaha we can do whatever we want!” - Boeing Executive
There I figured it out for you
It’s true and funny but I cannot enjoy Dilbert as much knowing Scott Adams is a fucking lunatic.
Boeing killed John Barnett
It probably got into the planes with rivets, cause titanium is hard to weld.
Ok, well, you see…they accidentally, and then BAM fake titanium.
Isn’t the headline misleading? Keep seeing clickbait headlines about this, but I thought it was a matter of improper documentation, not that it wasn’t actually titanium.
So tired of what passes for “journalism” these days. Thanks, RepubliQans! /s
Pretty much yes. Proper documentation is important for safety, but calling the itself titanium fake is incredibly dishonest.
The rest of the headline doesn’t fair any better.
The planes that included components made with the material were… Boeing 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner airliners as well as Airbus A220 jets
Headline only mentions one of the involved manufacturers, misrepresenting it as a boeing problem because they know what will drive clicks.
Also I think that airbus are implicated as well but as Boeing are the big bad let’s not worry about that
I would not want to be the guy digging through those device history records.
Apple stoll all of it for their phones
Well, it looked like titanium and since none of their engineers had ever seen anodized aluminum, that was a really honest mistake. Let’s all have a laugh at it 😄 and continue our days…
Oh look, a 737! We get a lot of them as they land in the local international airport. Oh it’s getting closer. And closer…shit! Gotta run!.. Phew! It was just a crazy pilot, all good, it didn’t land on my rooftop.
