Posted on 03/12/2024 2:35:32 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
You’d think Boeing’s already miserable 2024 couldn’t get any worse. But on Monday, a 787 Dreamliner plunged suddenly mid-flight, injuring dozens of passengers, after a pilot said he temporarily lost control of the aircraft.
The pilot was able to recover and land the plane safely, but it’s not yet clear what caused the LATAM flight from Australia to New Zealand to fall so dramatically. LATAM called it a “technical event.”
The company’s nonstop streak of bad news began the first weekend of the year, when part of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max blew off the side of the plane just after takeoff. A preliminary federal investigation revealed that Boeing probably did not put the bolts in the so-called door plug that are designed to prevent the part from blowing off the plane.
In February, pilots on a United Airlines 737 Max reported that the flight controls jammed as the plane landed in Newark. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. Two weeks ago, the Federal Aviation Administration flagged safety issues with the de-icing equipment on 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner models that could cause engines to lose thrust.
Then, last week, Boeing got more bad news: The NTSB said Boeing has not yet provided the company’s records documenting the steps taken on the assembly line for the door plug replacement on the Alaska Airlines jet. Boeing’s reason: Those records don’t actually exist…
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Dreamliner = Nightmare Liner
Boeing did not kill itself.
They had bird brains on the board of directors instead of aeronautical engineers.
My worst nightmare, My daughter and friend were in Australia and New Zealand recently. Thank goodness on a cruise, but the night first door fell off a Boeing plane, she was flying from San Francisco to Spokane.
Really wonder if Boeing is the target of industrial espionage and sabotage. China and the EU have made huge investments to design and build commercial airliners. They would love to knock Boeing off its lofty perch.
Boeing is 108 years old. They should know how to make airplanes.
Suddenly everything goes wrong.
Is this intentional, sabotage perhaps?
Going to be interesting to see what the Boeing social media team here is going to do to call this one ‘pilot error’:
“Boeing’s reason: Those records don’t actually exist”
Yes, the timing seems odd.
If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.
It will be years before they will recover, if they can recover. Their business is going to China.
Doesn’t Boeing hire based on kolor, kink and/or kin? Maybe DEI kills companies ... and passengers.
or is it self inflicted with suicidal dei policies?
It started when Rockwell took over, fired the engineers and outsourced most of production. They just started being an assembler of sub components.
This put the financial burden on suppliers.
They are now starting to reverse this for example they are buying back Spirit Aerosystems in Tulsa.
I’m afraid WWII’s hero, Rosie the Riveter, has now become Stephanie Pope the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and a few screws are loose somewhere
Boeing, for sure, is a highly political company. Its probably being pulled in a dozen different directions by Government, wokeism, Pentagon demands, deep-state insider cronyism
That is what will destroy it.
Near disaster = “technical event.”
Dozens injuries, some serious = “medical event.”
Boeing collapse = “financial event.”
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