It takes more than 200,000 fasteners to hold a Boeing 737 together, and many of them are installed manually by mechanics at Spirit AeroSystems. You can run your finger down and feel how smooth they are, said master mechanic Tim Hamm...
It makes your heart sink, said Hamm. Everybody's got family on these planes. We don't want no incidents at all. We want the best quality we can out of this place, and no defects...
If there was 53 of them a month to do, we stayed and we got em done. We worked, and we got every one of them done every day...
The pace slowed sharply in January after a door plug panel blew out of a 737 Max jet in midair. Federal investigators believe that four key bolts were missing when the plane le...
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