I am really surprised this didn't kick up

moparmat2000 said
I am only disagreeing on one point. A big part of the hawiian air 737 convertible incident was a lot pencil whipped inspections on those aircraft. The employees started pointing fingers to save themselves. The cracks in the fuselage would normally have been found waaay before failure. A lot of folks lost their jobs because of that. A buddy of mine, His dad was a pilot for em at the time. The feds came in, inspected the fleet, marked almost all of em to be cut up for scrap.

moparmat2000 said
The aircraft I work on are at 50% of their lifespan. I see a lot of fatigue issues when they are just starting. The inspections on the Hawaiian air 737s were not done. If they had been, these issues would have been caught long before the top ripped off one of em.

Oh totally, there was a lot going on there. Boeing and Aloha airlines both had part in it. The 737's were redesigned after that to improve strength in that area and the inspection schedules were modified. There were also claims that the cracks had been visible before the flight and ignored, obviously an inspection issue. It's not usually just the "one thing", but a chain of events.