Following the unusable door that detached from Alaska Airlines aircraft mid-flight, Boeing has announced that additional quality checks will be conducted on its 737 Max models.
The American aircraft manufacturer said that a third party would be enlisted to evaluate its manufacturing procedures.
It will also examine the work of the company that installs and distributes the accident-related parts.
The US regulator prolonged the grounding of 737 Max aircraft with comparable fuselage panels last week.
Along with announcing that it would audit the aircraft’s manufacturing process, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated that it thought the 737 Max 9 jet had “significant problems” in addition to “other manufacturing problems.”
President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Aircraft, Stan Deal, stated the corporation was “not where we need to be” when he announced the most recent actions.
Mr. Deal stated that Boeing had been collaborating with the five impacted airlines to “bolster quality assurance and controls” in the 737 production process since the jets were grounded.
The manufacturer of the aircraft is also sending out a team to inspect the work being done by Spirit AeroSystems, the business that installs and supplies the parts implicated in the incident.
“We are planning additional inspections throughout the build process at Boeing and at Spirit,” added Deal.
“These checks will provide one more layer of scrutiny on top of the thousands of inspections performed today across each 737 airplane.”
Following the blowout on the Alaska Airlines aircraft from Portland, Oregon to California, which necessitated an emergency landing but did not cause any major injuries, scrutiny of Boeing has increased.
The US aerospace company has been fighting to regain faith after crashes in 2018 and 2019 involving a different plane in the 737 Max group killed 346 people.
After it was discovered that a portion of the flight control system’s poor design contributed to those crashes, regulators grounded the company’s well-known 737 Max aircraft worldwide for more than 18 months. The FAA was also criticized for its lax oversight.