A Boeing 737 designed to haul cargo was destroyed in a fire Saturday after making an emergency landing.
“Total Linhas Aereas 737-400 freighter destroyed by a cargo hold fire after making an emergency landing at Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport in Brazil,” Breaking Aviation News and Videos posted on X.
“Three vehicles from the airport’s own fire brigade and another five from the Fire Department worked to fight the flames on the airport runway. At around 7 am, firefighters were already doing the rescue work and removing the cargo from the plane,” the post said.
Total Linhas Aereas 737-400 freighter destroyed by a cargo hold fire after making an emergency landing at Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport in Brazil. pic.twitter.com/zFHP54kbY7
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A day earlier, on Friday, a Boeing 737-800 was involved in an emergency landing in Australia, according to Business Insider.
The Qantas airliner was heading to Brisbane, Australia, but had to land in Sydney after the emergency.
Qantas said the plane was inspected and experts determined that it experienced a “contained engine failure.”
Ever since January, when a Boeing 737 MAX lost a door panel in mid-air, the company’s quality control and safety operations have been under scrutiny.
🚨Today: A Total Cargo Boeing 737-400 had a fire onboard and made an emergency landing at Guarulhos Airport, São Paulo, Brazil. Both crew members survived, evacuating via an escape rope from the cockpit. Footage shows significant fuselage damage. The aircraft (reg. PS-TLB) pic.twitter.com/BfXEF4XuNw
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The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that even more oversight will be the rule now that the recent strike against Boeing is over, according to Reuters.
The FAA said it “will further strengthen and target our oversight as the company begins its return-to-work plan.”
Boeing workers are set to return to work Tuesday after a 53-day strike.
A February FAA audit of Boeing found 97 incidents of noncompliance.
FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker has said that making all the changes needed to ensure safety could take Boeing three to five years.
Because 737 production was halted by the strike, Boeing was unable to bring in the revenue it desperately needs, according to the Associated Press.
“Even for a company the size of Boeing, it is a life-threatening problem,” said Gautam Mukunda, lecturer at the Yale School of Management.
Boeing will be making about 30 737s per month as production resumes, but Mukunda said “they must get that number over 50. They have to do it. And the people who are going to do that are the workers on the factory floor.”
Flying Boeing seems to be a major health concern. I’m going to limit vacations to inner country destinations and start driving there. Another reason to not own an EV by the way. Seems we have planes , automobiles, processing plants and food companies all going up in smoke. Wonder why hmmmm. Just asking??
Boeing is not doing so well, but as a former aircraft mechanic, after the plane is delivered to the customer, maintenance is on the customer. Maybe stop hiring DEI and start hiring real mechanics.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, it seems like there has been a lot of food processing plants burning down and of course Boeing built one planes having problems and of course the maintenance at these airlines are a joke, but I believe that a large part of the problem is the hiring of completely unqualified people both at Boeing and airline companies and for the food companies again hiring people that really don’t care about the people that they are packing the food for, but there is also the fact that this could be by design seeing how there has been millions of illegal people coming in across the border. Then one of the big things that are responsible for the problems is the management of these companies and the workers immediate supervision is probably unqualified.
Keep hiring dei idiots and this will continue to happen
Pi** poor reporting in this article. I’m not interested in a diatribe about the various Boeing incidents, I wanted the cause of THIS fire….but that was too much to ask. Probably an improperly packaged shipment of Lithium batteries. After 35 years in the aviation industry I have yet to see any aviation incident accurately reported by media,.