Looks like another case of “We investigated ourselves, and found we did nothing wrong.”
When society is in the hands of second raters.
Customer safety vs. DEI and customer safety loses.
Looks like the same thing happened to Boeing.
A lot of Boeing threads here have had people defending Boeing. The problem is not the design, you see. The problem is not the manufacturing, you see. Boeing is blameless, you see.
The REAL problem, some have said, is just poor maintenance by staff at airports.
Here we see what “poor maintenance” looks like — it looks like a mechanic jumping up and down telling people about problems until he gets silenced by the Big Dogs.
My brother works in a small manufacturing company that makes fire-protection equipment.
They have a safety and quality review team of 4 people from different parts of company - if a worker or manager has a concern, complaint, or suggestion for process improvement, they simply notify the group.
they are conscious of time-wasting meetings, so they have a quick review of the issue (5 minutes or less) to get other eyes on the issue, and decide if its a real issue, or not. They make a very short record of the event. If worker feels its not addressed, they can escalate the issue.
If its a process improvement that saves $$, whoever brought the idea gets a bonus of up to $10K.
In this way, everyone can be a “whistleblower” and no one can claim ignorance if a problem occurs. He said it becomes clear very quickly if someone is merely ignorant of some detail, is complaining just to complain, vs. who is serious.
Maybe that wouldn’t work for a huge company with a complex product like Boeing.
Any company developing safety critical systems should have a culture of encouraging the reporting of potential hazards.
This clearly doesn’t seem to be the case at Boeing. This is at the management level. Some of design decisions would never have been made by engineers left to their own devices. It seems mechanics and technicians are punished for speaking out.
North America and Europe.
Fatal Boeing plane accidents:
Feb 2019 - 3 dead - Boeing Cargo 767 - Pilot error - first and only Cargo 767 crash
April 2018 - 1 dead - Boeing 737-700 - Engine explosion - Engine not manufactured by Boeing
July 2013 - 3 dead - San Francisco - Boeing 777 - Pilot error
September 2001 - all four hijacked aircraft were Boeing
October 1999 - 217 dead - 767 - Boston - Atlantic Ocean - Muslim pilot suicide
August 1997 - 229 dead - Guam - 747 - Pilot and ATC errors plus bad weather
July 1996 - 230 dead - New York - Atlantic Ocean - 747 - fuel tank explosion - many believe terrorist explosion
September 1994 - 132 dead - Pennsylvania - 737 - Rudder design error causes stall during approach
Bottom Line...
You have to go back 30 years to find an undisputed Boeing error that killed someone in North America or Europe.