👀 "A 35-year veteran...was typically the only mechanic who would work on door plugs. That mechanic was on vacation on the two critical days, Sept. 18 and 19 last year, when the door plug on the Alaska MAX 9 had to be opened and closed." www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...#AvGeek

Inside Boeing’s factory lapses that led to the Alaska Air blowout

A minute-by-minute look at how lapses on the Renton factory floor set up the door blowout of an Alaska flight.

Boeing has 10,000+ employees at Renton, where the 737s are built. That only 25 are tasked to do door work of any sort, and staffed only a single shift, seems crazy for a company building (theoretically) a plane every day. That only one of them really did the complex stuff is even more absurd.

Poor guy. He definitely needs a back up.

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