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Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has “Enormous Volume Of Defects” Bolts On MAX 9 Weren’t Installed (viewfromthewing.com)
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Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has “Enormous Volume Of Defects” Bolts On MAX 9 Weren’t Installed::A reader at respected airline industry site Leeham News offered a comment that suggests they have access to Boeing’s internal quality control systems, and shares details of what they saw regarding the Boeing 737 MAX 9 flown by Alaska Airlines that had a door plug detach inflight, causing rapid decompression of the aircraft. The takeaway appears to be that outsourced plane components have so many problems when they show up at the production line that Boeing’s quality control staff can’t keep up with them all.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If true, Boeing will cease to exist in a few years for the amount they are about to be sued.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Boeing is a defense contract darling, so they can never die.

Though, the commercial arm of Boeing could get broken off and sold to another airline if this gets any worse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

The names will be changed to protect the guilty.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, the US government will protect them despite all this, I'm afraid.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You know, I’d be perfectly fine if they nationalized the company for as long as it takes to restore a deep and unshakable sense of “you do not fuck with QA” to Boeing.

Their current board and corporate leadership should be prosecuted for criminal negligence for allowing it to get this bad after the MCAS crashes, and moreover after they publicly committed to drastically improving QA and general safety policies following those crashes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The US government will disolve the FAA before they nationalize any industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I’m not talking about the whole industry. Boeing is a single company.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It appears that nationalizing the company and taking 100% of the profit drive out of the loop until after a healthy safety culture has been re-established, would be the only way forward. But consequences? For top level management? That wouldn't even happen in Western Europe - much less in the US.

What's a couple thousand dead "plebs" compared to the pain and suffering that a CEO like Muilenburg, or Calhoun would experience from even an immediate termination of contract without bonuses, god forbid they'd have to face an actual sentence in a criminal trial.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“Time for a multi billion dollar defence contract” -congress.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

sadly, this is exactly what I suspect would happen.