Trouble: Every article about Boeing, that fails to mention the AFL-CIO unions’ dedication to poor self-conduct and poor craftsmanship.
First you have to separate design and build issues from maintenance by the buyer.
Could this be sabotage by angry unionistas upset about some of Boeings anti-union movements....
“The trouble began in January, when a disused emergency exit door blew off a brand new Boeing 737 Max shortly after take-off from Portland International Airport.”
Huh? Is the author unaware of the Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes due to MCAS in 2018 and 2019?
Last year I heard of a plan to make it so your average
person couldn’t expect to travel by air after around 2030.
All it will take is two or three manufacturers to come off
looking like Boeing, for the public to quit flying by choice.
I can’t help but wonder if someone found some wolk people
on the work force, and got them to help move things along.
I would think that inspection teams would have caught
something like this. It’s inexcusable for this type of
shoddy work to make it through to sales and these craft
being used to fly routes.
Why is the fact that this aircraft was restricted for ETOPS being ignored? There were multiple maintenance squawks on this BRAND NEW aircraft. There were multiple squawks related to pressurization warnings. Was there another warning in the cockpit that day? We will never know what the pilot discussed in her aircraft before leaving from Portland or during the flight because the cockpit voice recorder tape was oh so conveniently written over. What we do know is that when the aircraft was restricted from ETOPS flying no one in the maintenance department got to the root cause of the issue until it was too late. Gotta keep the plane flying for revenue!
Something is going on that does not pass the smell test. I believe that only one of the current issues with Boeing planes has been tied to Boeing itself. The rest are still under investigation and could have been caused by any number of people or things. That would be the cargo door incident.
More than any company besides G.E., it was Boeing that was most directly shaped by Jack Welch (GE ceo). Over the past 25 years, a succession of men who worked for Mr. Welch refashioned the airplane maker’s culture to resemble G.E.’s, transforming a company that once made a priority of aeronautical engineering into one that thrived on financial engineering.
“When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm,”
Mr. Stonecipher said in 2004. “It is a great engineering firm, but people invest in a company because they want to make money.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/21/business/jack-welch-ge-ceo-behavior.html
Budweiser trouble.
Boeing probably does have some quality issues.
But I wonder if they are being sabotaged by a couple of airport maintenance teams.
“Executives at the aerospace giant’s shiny new headquarters in Arlington, Virginia”
Arlington, 5 miles from DC. It would seem Boeing has become more of a Lobbying firm than a Plane Manufacturer. And now they will go into full blown Lobbying to buy off politicians from going whoop ass on them with investigations.
“If it’s Boeing, I’m not going”
Let us also not forget that every one of these airplanes was inspected and approved by the United States Government.
Every.
Single.
One.
How much Diversity have them implemented , diversity and trouble should be even
the 737 MAX is an albatross around the companies neck.
“”I’m at an alert status that I’ve never had to be in on a Boeing airplane,” he says.”
That’s a really good point. In the early days of aviation one had to be a superb pilot to fly any airplane and the company building the plane also had to have superb standards and employees, so no room for DEI. Even with all of that, it was still very risky.
Now Boeing seems to have returned to requiring superb pilots, but the airlines long ago jettisoned the idea of superb pilots, in order to ‘look more like America’.
The problem now for the Wokesters is that people are willing to put up with DEI in their face just about everywhere...but in in air travel.
It would be REALLY GOOD if this mess puts a stake through this DEI crap once and for all, by either Boeing or the Airlines, or both, PUBLICLY ANNOUNCING that DEI is an ABJECT FAILURE, and that they’re jettisoning it, and if the FAA wants to shut them down for it, so be it.
This is just the media’s winter “shark attack frenzy” blitz because they need something to divert headline readers away from real issues.
What would Xi do if he wanted to cripple America’s ability to control the skies in a war?
People & Power - On a wing and a prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWdEtANi-0
This has been coming for a number of years.
We can thank the cozy relationship with the federal regulators.
Boeing should have been broken up years ago to separate their government/defense manufacturing from commercial aircraft. It should have been a condition of the McDonnell Douglas merger.