Boeing whistleblower: ‘They are putting out defective airplanes’

CNN ^ | 4/17/24 | Chris Isidore and Gregory Wallace, CNN

[DallasBiff]

Boeing quality engineer Sam Salehpour, Executive Director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety and former Boeing Manager Ed Pierson, Aerospace Engineer and Technical Advisor to the Foundation for Aviation Safety and former FAA engineer Joe Jacobsen and Professional Practice Assistant Professor for Integrated Systems Engineering at Ohio State University Shawn Pruchnicki at Wednesday's Senate hearing questioning the safety of Boeing jets.

Boeing’s already battered reputation took another hit at two Senate committee hearings Wednesday on Capitol Hill, with witnesses questioning how the company builds airplanes and the safety of those planes.

One of the key witnesses was Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour, a whistleblower who said he’s been threatened for bringing safety concerns to his managers over several years, but that he was testifying due to his belief that “they are putting out defective airplanes.”

[DallasBiff]

DEI in action.

[xoxox]

Then they came for Boeing...

[butlerweave]

Diversity Aircraft

[buckalfa]

"DEI in action."

More than just DEI. Corporate culture mirrors society. Americans have become entitled, complacent, and too reliant on technology as the end all be all. Mediocrity is now not only acceptable but desirable.

[Gen.Blather]

My impression from being put at Boeing by my company for about a month was that Boeing had been developing systemic structural organization problems that were leading to bad decisions, poor quality and a host of other issues. Some of the problems at this point are not easily resolved. Selling contracts to Spirit with its own notable problems will continue to result in embarrassments if only because they have separate databases that started out with Spirit having a copy of the original. Both databases have grown, but not in the same way. Also, both companies have developed workarounds to get away from using a horribly awkward problem resolution system imposed by the FAA. That’s why the door fell off that Alaska plane. To get away from all these problems would require getting all the parties together and examining each other’s underwear. It would be a horrible process and reveal things that could potentially turn into lawsuits. Not likely to happen.

[caww]

They lowered their hiring standards.

[George J. Jetso]

I am shocked.

[erlayman]

I hope they can get it together because Airbus is more short haul. I can’t see United moving to them entirely.

[ridesthemiles]

DOOR gasket was made in MALAYASIA ?

[TalBlack]

It’d be pretty easy to go to a defective plane and show the defective aspects however they are measured.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I hope they can get it together because Airbus is more short haul.

The Airbus A350-900ULR is the longest range large aircraft in the world at 9,700 nm.

[reed13k]

Not just Boeing I’ve been watching programs across multiple companies in med devices for the past 24 years and engineers aren’t being taught standards and techniques the way we did before … now it’s all just generate cad or gerber(circuit boards) get parts in and run a test if it passes it’s good to go. Minimal finite effects analysis as little failure modes and effects as possible and get it out the door - we’ll fix any problems later. Has led me to leave a few places on my own and even though quality is supposed to ensure
Compliance and limit potential liability were seen as a roadblock or overreacting the majority of the time.

[Vehmgericht]

Boeing now is a much stronger company. Its diversity will pay in the long run. A few air crashes are a small price to pay for its increased strength. Most American companies are adopting these policies. The future looks bright.

[minnesota_bound]

One of their ceo’s Philip Condit moved the headquarters to Chicago in 2001 and after he resigned 2 years later the new ceo Harry Stonecipher was fired because of a woman he was dating at the time who he later married. It was revealed she was a boeing employee and he was not suppose to date anyone from the company.

See the line below. The “need to buffer top management from the influence and distractions of its production plants”

Distraction? They should be looking at the airplanes being built all the time!
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Searched: boeing ceo moved the headquarters to Chicago

Why did Boeing move their headquarters to Chicago?
Boeing’s relocation to Chicago was predicated on the professed need to buffer top management from the influence and distractions of its production plants, whose numbers were growing as the company diversified and absorbed a 1997 merger with defense contractor McDonnell Douglas.Jan 31, 2024
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Is Boeing moving headquarters again?
Boeing’s corporate offices had been in Seattle from its founding in 1916 until it relocated to Chicago in 2001. Then in 2022, Boeing corporate moved again — this time to Arlington, Virginia, near the Pentagon and across the river from Capitol Hill.Apr 11, 2024
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None of the execs are engineers nor do they work where the planes are made.

“It’s an Empty Executive Suite”

An insider explains what has gone disastrously wrong with Boeing.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/insider-explains-what-has-gone-wrong-with-boeing