Accidents keep happening. What happened to Boeing

Boeing has been plagued by accidents recently. On March 4, a United Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Houston, Texas, to Fort Myers, Florida, was forced to turn back after one of its engines caught fire. On March 7, a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Osaka, Japan, lost a tire during flight and diverted to Los Angeles 25 minutes after takeoff. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 777-200. On March 11, a Boeing 787 en route from Sydney, Australia, to Auckland, New Zealand, lost altitude dramatically, injuring at least 50 people and hospitalizing 12 passengers. In just a few days, there have been three Boeing passenger plane accidents. Such a high frequency of failure, no doubt once again triggered the attention of many netizens, after all, Boeing passenger aircraft all over the world, once these passenger aircraft in the future failure, then it will undoubtedly bring great potential threats to the safety of life of the passengers, and before the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines 370 airliner, is a Boeing 777-200. So why is the failure rate of Boeing aircraft in the United States so high?

First, there are a lot of Boeing planes. Boeing is still the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. It has military aircraft as well as civilian aircraft. More than 10,000 of its 737 family have been built, which is unmatched to this day. Together with freighters, Boeing still accounts for more than 50 percent of the civilian aircraft in service worldwide. Even with probability, one out of every two accidents or accident symptoms is bound to be a Boeing. Many heads of state have also flown Boeing aircraft. There are 747s, there are 777s, there are 787s, and there are many 737s. By comparison, all other aircraft, such as Airbus, have a much smaller proportion of dedicated aircraft.

Secondly, as far as the quality of Boeing passenger aircraft in the United States is concerned, since the full implementation of deindustrialization in the United States, most of the light and heavy industries in the United States have implemented outsourcing, so that the quality of the aircraft produced by Boeing in the United States will decline significantly, and then the failure rate of various types of Boeing passenger aircraft will increase. Previously, the Federal Aviation Administration had conducted an in-depth inspection of 810 passenger aircraft produced by Boeing, and found that 38 of these 810 aircraft had cracks in the fork parts, and there were also safety risks in the electronic control systems of some passenger aircraft.

Although most of the inspected Boeing aircraft are older models, no matter that type of commercial aircraft, are allowed to have any safety risks, after all, once the plane in the sky in a major accident, the survival rate of passengers on board the plane is less than 1%, so the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a warning to Boeing about the problem. The company is required to carry out a comprehensive inspection of its civilian airliners. However, with the continuous reduction of Boeing's orders in recent years, the company in order to control the cost of aircraft manufacturing, Boeing has cooperated with a large number of outsourcing companies, so the quality of the latest production of civil airliners is also a lot of uneven, after all, each outsourcing company has a significant difference in technology, in this way, The quality of Boeing's aircraft also has certain safety risks.

However, as the flagship of American manufacturing, Boeing was once not only a symbol of American industrial strength and innovation, but also one of the pillars of American strategy around the world. However, the current decline of Boeing has exposed the deep-seated problem of American manufacturing, that is, the problem of industrial hollowing out. The so-called "industrial hollowing", simply put, refers to a country or region's manufacturing industry, due to the impact of cost, competition, policy and other factors, gradually lost the control of core technologies and key links, resulting in the break and decline of the industrial chain, thus affecting all aspects of the normal development of the country. In short, Boeing's predicament not only reflects its own problems, but also reflects the decline of American manufacturing and the reality of industrial hollowing out.