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BumRushDaShow

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Thu Jun 19, 2025, 06:25 PM Jun 19

NTSB urges quick fix on Boeing 737 Max plane engines to prevent smoke from filling cabin

Source: Scripps News/AP

Posted 10:56 AM, Jun 19, 2025


Safety experts recommended Wednesday that the engines on Boeing's troubled 737 Max airplanes be modified quickly to prevent smoke from filling the cockpit or cabin after a safety feature is activated following a bird strike.

The problem detailed by the National Transportation Safety Board emerged after two bird strikes involving Southwest Airlines planes in 2023 — one in Havana, Cuba, and another in New Orleans. The Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing already warned airlines and pilots about the problem and the engine maker has been working on a fix.

The NTSB said that the engines CFM International makes for the Boeing plane can inadvertently release oil into the hot engine when the safety feature, called a load reduction device, is activated after a bird strike or similar engine issue. The resulting smoke feeds directly into either the cockpit or passenger cabin, depending on which engine was struck.

Similar engine models with the same safety feature are also used on Airbus A320neo planes and C919 planes made by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China. The NTSB urged European and Chinese aviation safety regulators to evaluate those engine models to determine if they could also be susceptible to the smoke problem.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/business/company-news/ntsb-urges-quick-fix-on-boeing-737-max-plane-engines-to-prevent-smoke-from-filling-cabin

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NTSB urges quick fix on Boeing 737 Max plane engines to prevent smoke from filling cabin (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 19 OP
DOGE didn't de-fund NTSB? Thank God! surfered Jun 19 #1
I'm going to Seattle again Delarage Jun 19 #2
Boeing will have to change their company name since their reputation is so bad IronLionZion Jun 20 #3
Nothing charms travelers like a smoke filled cabin. mpcamb Jun 20 #4

Delarage

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2. I'm going to Seattle again
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:32 PM
Jun 19

In September. Two different choices in terms of flights from Philly. I went with the Airbus instead of a Boeing 737.

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