Boeing 737 whose emergency door flew off… This time, there is controversy over a defect in the US Secretary of State’s private plane.

Secretary of State Blinken cannot use 737 private jet due to oxygen leak issue

Boeing, which was recently criticized for manufacturing a passenger plane in which an emergency door was torn off during a flight, has now sparked controversy over a defect in a plane flown by the U.S. Secretary of State.

According to Bloomberg News and CNN on the 17th (local time), Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who attended the World Economic Forum (Davos Forum) held in Davos, Switzerland, used a Boeing 737 (U.S. Air Force) that had been converted into a dedicated duty aircraft. I was planning to return home.

At the time, Secretary Blinken and his party boarded the aircraft, but were notified by the U.S. Air Force that ‘an oxygen leak was detected, but repairs could not be completed.’

In the end, Secretary Blinken returned home using a small aircraft procured from Brussels, Belgium, and his staff and reporters accompanying him on his European business trip took other commercial flights.

The aircraft that had the oxygen leak problem was a Boeing 737-700 manufactured by Boeing of the United States.

A passenger plane flew with its emergency door torn off. @leslibless X (Twitter) Capture

The Boeing 737 Max 9, the latest version of the model, was operated by Alaska Airlines on the 5th when an accident occurred in which the normally unused emergency exit hole was blocked and the ‘door plug’, which acts as a wall, fell off during flight. .

In this accident, the cellphones and shirts of the passengers on the plane flew into the damaged hole, and the passengers had to wear oxygen masks until the plane landed.

Accordingly, U.S. aviation regulators banned the operation of about 170 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft indefinitely, and Boeing decided to strengthen quality control for the 737 model.

Choi Jae-ho,

Source: Donga

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