Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max makes emergency landing in Orlando

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 on its way to storage was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after departing Orlando on Tuesday afternoon.

Southwest Flight 8701 took off from Orlando International Airport at 2:50 p.m. and returned to the airport just before 3 p.m. after pilots reported an engine problem, federal aviation and airline officials said.

The aircraft was being ferried to an airport in southern California with no passengers aboard, officials said. All Boeing 737 Max aircraft have been grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration and are only allowed to fly in special circumstances, such as being transferred to a storage facility.

“The Crew followed protocol and safely landed back at the airport. The flight was scheduled to fly to Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, Calif., for short-term storage,” Southwest said in a statement. “The Boeing 737 MAX 8 will be moved to our Orlando maintenance facility for a review.”

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Jeez, they can't even ferry the damn things.

[Chin music]

2. Didnt Boeing just lose a billion dollar contrct to make jets...

to a russian company? Bc the problems above? Sounds like one of those private, no-translator meetings may have been an exchange on a flashdrive of malware. The russians are cleaning up.

[paleotn]

6. Airbus...

is Boeing's only serious competitor. For all Boeing's problems, no one in their right mind would fly Russian built airliners....except Russians who have little choice.

[Chin music]

7. Heh heh.

[VMA131Marine]

10. That may change

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkut_MC-21

It has US engines and other components.

[madaboutharry]

3. The 737 Max 8 will forever be notorious.

There will be people who refuse to get on them. I doubt that there will be future orders for this boondoggle.

[Sherman A1]

4. These planes need to be

Flown to the scrapyard at Boeing’s expense and everyone reimbursed.

[Boomer]

14. At this rate...

Who would be willing to fly them to the scrapyard.

[Hassler]

5. Why does Transportation Sec, Mrs Moscow Mitch McTurd-le keep crashing 737's?

[Mr. Sparkle]

8. To be fair, this was just a random engine problem. There is plenty of backup built

into the system to fly safely back to the airport. It has nothing to do with the widespread mcas failure.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. True, but it sure doesn't help its reputation.

I knew some pilots who did test and ferry flights for an airline - they flew the broken ones. But still, I wouldn't want to do even a ferry flight in a MAX until they figure out that MCAS problem.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I have an idea.

Let's make the Boeing 737 Max the official airline of the Republican party.

Thin out the herd a little.

[DemoTex]

12. I have 12,000+ hours in Boeing 737 200/300/400 aircraft

On July 31, 1989, I had a flight control problem with a Boeing 737-400. I was flying a red-eye flight from San Francisco to Philly. We had about 180 seconds over Denver, at 2 AM, to figure the problem out. We did.
It was a Boeing design flaw in the electric rudder trim system. They stonewalled, at first. Then there was a fatal crash involving the same system, about two months laters (USAir 5050).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Yikes, that must have been scary.

And then there was USAir 427 in 1994, the 737 crash near Pittsburgh, where the rudder went full deflection because of a jammed valve in the rudder control system (and there had been previous similar incidents, including an unsolved accident). It took the NTSB more than four years to figure that one out because they had so much trouble duplicating the malfunction.

[Maxheader]

15. I worked on the 737-900 flat bulkhead program..

At wichita...called spirit then...The question I had was why were they going from a domed bulk head to a flat?

I was contract engineering at the time..Directs don't like hanging out the dirty laundry. Turns out later the
stresses from the vertical fin were causing some "problems" within the structure and the flat bulkhead was
an attempt to strengthen the load paths down in the fuselage....48 section..

[Bengus81]

16. No...called Boeing Wichita then,now Spirit..........

[Bengus81]

17. Had one of those crash where--Colorado Springs about that same time frame?

Same rudder problem they couldn't figure out or just blamed on pilot error?

[MaxFine]

18. Listen to ATC here

Those guys were as cool as a cucumber.