This plane just happened to have the failure.
Just weeks before they had issued a warning about loose bolts on the Max8 rudder. Could have easily been an accident there and then we would be talking about the 8 instead of the 9.
Loose nuts and bolts, missing washers, extra parts, machines that can't assemble the planes properly .. this is not an isolated incident to any particular plane, it is a pattern of behavior across their entire product line.
We as passengers will suffer it, costs over safety. have no doubt about it
China industry works as one entity, backed by the state. The model is to enter the markets and to dump the prices until the established industries are knocked down, and finish with a Chinese company buying the broken ones (when the different governments allows it, what not always happens).
Hawuei and ZTE was selling equipment at lower prices than manufacturing costs, and subsidizing antennas. In 2012 it was started to be investigated in the European Union, and finally was banned due 5G networks and the recent espionage suspicions.
Returning to aircrafts, the recent scandal involving fake parts for engines that was being sold by AOG Technics[1]. In no articles I read about the matter it is investigated, so it is an imagination exercise, but, Where do you think these pieces were made?
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/airline-scandal-...
We as consumers should put some blame on the airlines too for always wishing to skimp on training and thus giving perverse incentives to Boeing to mess around with crap like MCAS.
I still think Boeing is to blame for the MAX issues in the end but the problem is systemic.
