Boeing lines the pockets of politicians and unsafe planes get passed through FAA scrutiny.
Happy beyond measure that I no longer have to fly ANYWHERE for work.
Nope. Grounded for the foreseeable future. :)
It seems the previous Max grounding was a competency crisis.
It feels like an accountability crisis at this point.
Boeing’s quality control is in the crapper. Boeing has a NASA contract to build a new capsule. After years of work they discovered they had to replace much of the wiring on the new capsule. They had used materials that were problematic in a fire. My first thought was the Apollo 1 capsule fire that killed 3 astronauts. Besides the 100% oxygen, the wiring was found to be one of main problems. And here is Boeing, years later, mucking it up.
Another problem is NASA has ceased cost plus contracts. Those were contracts where as the cost of something increased, NASA just paid it. With the advent of SpaceX and reusability, costs have plummeted. NASA’s contractors will have to control costs, and build something worthwhile at the same time.
I flew myself around in my 1948 Navion for 20 years never had a problem.
Like every other company in the US, Boeing has been on a massive cost cutting mission over the last 20 years. The objective is to maximize stock value and thus executive pay. They do this by outsourcing as much as possible, including a lot of the engineering. Their MO now is to only hire as many in house engineers as needed to get through a project then fire them when they’re done. There is very little legacy knowledge there, they have to reinvent the wheel every new airplane they design or every new series of an old airplane (like the MAX). Pilots note that there are a lot of similarities between Boeing designs and Embraer systems. That’s because most of embraer’s airplanes were designed by engineers Boeing had discarded. It’s not likely to change unless the Harvard MBA management culture is somehow rooted out.
“This sort of thing is going to get worse and with increasing frequency.”
Really? A freakish one-off occurrence means that things are sliding down hill???
When was the last time this exact thing happened?
Investment outfits are downgrading shares of Boeing to a hold rating from a buy rating.
“loss of part of the fuselage”
Explanation of the Boeing 737 -900 MAX emergency exit door. It is a “plug” -type but dynamic. The door hinges downward on the outside of the aircraft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw4eQGAmXQ0
“This business will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emdzsz_XvfA
Here is a detail report on what is wrong with Boeing. Posted right on their website!
Guess who works for sh*t wages at Boeing subcontractors…I'll take 'asylum seekers' for $25k, Alex.