Aviation jargon can hide all kinds of horrors. This month Boeing introduced a new phrase to a wider audience – Quality escape (n.): part of a 737 Max plane falling off at 14,000ft, producing a deafening roar as the air rushes past passengers fast enough to rip phones from hands and clothing from bodies.
It appears that someone in the factory failed to properly fit bolts securing the plug panel for an unused door. For followers of Boeing’s travails over recent years, the apparent failures in quality control that led to the incident were scarcely believable, less than five years after regulators grounded the 737 Max following two deadly crashes caused by flawed design.
