{"id":17597,"date":"2023-12-29T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/boeing-urges-inspections-of-737-max-planes-for-possible-loose-bolt\/"},"modified":"2023-12-29T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T04:50:45","slug":"boeing-urges-inspections-of-737-max-planes-for-possible-loose-bolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/boeing-urges-inspections-of-737-max-planes-for-possible-loose-bolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing urges inspections of 737 Max planes for ‘possible loose bolt’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boeing\u00a0is urging airlines to inspect 737 Max planes to look for a \u201cpossible loose bolt\u201d in the rudder control system, the latest quality issue to affect the manufacturer\u2019s bestselling jetliner.<\/p>\n

The company recommended the inspections after \u201can international operator discovered a bolt with a missing nut while performing routine maintenance on a mechanism in the rudder-control linkage,\u201d the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Thursday. \u201cThe company discovered an additional undelivered aircraft with a nut that was not properly tightened.\u201d<\/p>\n

The inspections will take about two hours per plane, and all new 737 Maxes will undergo the check before they\u2019re handed over to customers, Boeing said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue identified on the particular airplane has been remedied,\u201d Boeing said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we are recommending operators inspect their 737 MAX airplanes and inform us of any findings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shares of Boeing were down more than 1% in afternoon trading.<\/p>\n

Alaska Airlines\u00a0plans to start the inspections on Thursday. A spokeswoman said the carrier anticipates completing them in the first half of January. \u201cWe don\u2019t expect any operational impact as a result,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for\u00a0United Airlines, one of the biggest 737 Max customers, said the carrier doesn\u2019t expect any impact to its operations as a result of the issue.<\/p>\n

American\u00a0Airlines\u00a0said in a statement that it will complete the inspections and that it also doesn\u2019t anticipate its operations to be impacted by them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] Boeing\u00a0is urging airlines to inspect 737 Max planes to look for a \u201cpossible loose bolt\u201d in the rudder control system, the latest quality issue to affect the manufacturer\u2019s bestselling jetliner. The company recommended the inspections after \u201can international operator discovered a bolt with a missing nut while performing routine maintenance on a mechanism in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}