Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has "Enormous Volume Of Defects" Bolts On MAX 9 Weren't Installed - View from the Wing
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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.

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.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        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.

        • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          5 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.