Boeing has been losing their way ever since the merger with Mcdonnell Douglas and the move of their HQ from Washington state to Chicago.
What they need, and what they'll never get, is a major shakeup of upper management by getting rid of the bean counters and installing engineers.
I’ve suspected it was a quality control related issue from the beginning.
17 years in an aviation maintenance quality department taught me that there really is no substitute for a second set of eyes monitoring critical processes.
When I first heard about this I thought “ah yes, the swiss cheese model has reared its ugly head”.
That hatch should be larger than the opening and never fit through it unless rotated 90 degrees horizontally and again sideways.
In 2009 my company sent me to Boeing’s Seattle headquarters to interface for a joint project. The overall sensation was that Boeing employees were entitled, arrogant and unaccepting of any input. I got this feeling even from overhead conversations in the cafeteria. The company seems rotten from the head to the guy mopping the floors. The reason Boeing was even involved in the project was because a Senator required it to get his vote on the funding. The necessity of making them a co-manager added an element of expense and random disorganization that eventually combined with other problems to kill the project. Too many cooks. And the cooks from Boeing had no clue how to make a soup.