Much as I hate Boeing for flying into the ground and banking truckloads of ill-gotten government gain, you gotta give ’em a break on this one. We can be sure it’s down to the last grease monkey turning a wrench on those door bolts – likely forgetting to do so properly, skipping the Loctite™, whatever.
Look at the records for every one of these planes that comes up with loose or missing door plug bolts and we’ll find they were removed for maintenance at some point. If they all turn up loose, then we have a bigger problem. I just want to know how something like that can fail so suddenly and so completely with cockpit warning lights going basically ignored?
