Boeing will allow airline customers of its 737 Max aircraft into its factories to review its procedures while also conducting additional quality inspections itself, as the US plane maker seeks to contain the fallout from a damaging fuselage breach on an Alaska Airlines plane 10 days ago.
The company will also bring in an external third party to review its quality management systems, as well as deploying a team to key supplier Spirit AeroSystems which made and installed the door plug that blew out on the Alaska aircraft in mid-air on a flight from Portland, Oregon.
The team will inspect Spirit’s installation of the door plugs and approve them before the completed fuselage sections are shipped to the plane maker’s factory at Renton in Washington.