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.

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 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.