Having more quality inspections doesn’t necessarily translate to the quality of those quality inspections increasing.
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I suspect that the the extra FAA oversight will concentrate their minds - nearly a slam dunk case of corporate manslaughter (or whatever the USA equivalent is).
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Blimey! Bit of a tail wagging the dog situation!
Boeing seeks Ryanair support with checks after mid-air blowout - BBC News
I had just come to post the same thing. You know you’re up Excrement Creek when you’re having to rely on Ryanair!
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Might be the other way around?
From previous colleagues who jumped across to VVIP flying from Ryanair, they said that their trg was very good*** & they hadn’t encountered poor engineering aspects (ignore faults, blind eye to operating outside of the minimum equipment list, etc). They need all their fleet on-line to maximum operating / profit.
I did several “A to B” flights (means to an end) & sat on the flt deck jump seat several times. Their SOPs were strict & very well complied with that I could see.
*** from a personal perspective, the “product” was better than some other large airlines.
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Flight returns to Japan after ‘drunk’ man bites crew member Flight returns to Japan after ‘drunk’ man bites crew member - BBC News
Odd’s on Michael will charge Boeing extra for those checks! 
He’ll be negotiating an even heavier discount!
Latest development; another Boeing jet model appears to be facing the same scrutiny:
Although, touch wood, a lot of flight hrs on this model & no occurrences.
The boss of Emirates doesn’t exactly seem happy with Boeing, for some reason…
Well, Emirates had / have about 600+ Boeing 777s (with some parked up), so that s a huge fleet to look at any potential quality control issues. The fact that Emirates are considering sending engineers across seems to indicate that they might have had problems?
Emirates have a fleet size of 249 passenger and 11 freighter aircraft but have substantial orders with both Boeing and Airbus. It just seems at Dubai they have the world monopoly on 777-200 and 300XRs
And another thing!
It’s an absolute joke from my POV. I design and manufacture stuff every day. And even we, as a very small company, have procedures in place to find and isolate errors as and when they happen. Multiple checks of each part, done multiple times by multiple people. I get that things can fall through the gaps, but this seems endemic by Boeing and their suppliers.
Sadly, if you look just at CHIRP for engineering issues & shortage of qualified technicians, you can see how errors / pressure stack up.
One of my RAF friends from Bruggen survived the self-frag (& life as a POW) when their 1000 lbs bombs went off underneath their jet, but was killed at Valley when the controls were disconnected & the independent sign-off hadn’t been done. Other issues with documentation too . 
I was told that one of the technicians involved committed suicide shortly afterwards. Two wasted deaths.
A door that blew away from a Boeing 737 Max shortly after take-off may not have been properly secured, a new report says.
The US National Transportation Safety Board has released initial findings from its probe into the incident on an Alaska Airlines plane in January.
It says four key bolts that were meant to lock the unused door to the fuselage appeared to be missing.
As if this wasn’t already obvious from an outside observer!
And indeed the inside observers. Good they had buckled themselves in!
