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WASHINGTON – Boeing will conduct additional quality checks on its 737 MAX following an accident earlier this month that blew off a fuselage panel on the plane, the head of its commercial aircraft division announced Monday.
The planemaker also asked Spirit, the supplier that manufactured and installed the plug door involved in the accident, to check and approve Spirit's work on the plug door before the plane was sent to Boeing's production facility in Washington state. The company plans to send a team to AeroSystems, President Stan Diehl said. Boeing Commercial Airplanes said in a letter to Boeing employees.
In addition to inspecting the door plugs, Diehl said the Boeing team will conduct inspections at 50 other locations in the Spirit's production process.
Alaska Airlines begins preliminary inspection of grounded Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft
| ticker | safety | last | change | change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA | boeing company | 217.70 | -4.96 | -2.23% |
| SPR | spirit aero system | 27.20 | -0.40 | -1.45% |
Meanwhile, Boeing and Spirit plan to open up their 737 production facilities to airline customers, allowing airlines to conduct their own testing.
On January 7, 2024, the fuselage plug section of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 Max was observed during an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board in Portland, Oregon. (Handout/Reuters photo via NTSB/Reuters)
Boeing also plans to hold quality control sessions for employees and invite outside parties to conduct an independent assessment of its production processes, Diehl said.
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“Everything we do must comply with QMS (quality management system) requirements,” Diehl wrote. “We will not accept anything less. Through this standard, we must provide our customers and their passengers with complete confidence in Boeing airplanes.”
