Posted on 09/18/2021 2:05:25 PM PDT by billorites
Two empty liquor bottles were found this month on one of Boeing Co. ’s new Air Force One planes under development in San Antonio, people familiar with the matter said.
The discovery of miniature bottles of tequila on one of the future U.S. presidential jets is under investigation by the company, these people said. It couldn’t be determined where on the plane the bottles were discovered.
While Boeing has had problems in recent years with tools, rags and other factory garbage left on commercial and military aircraft, this incident is particularly serious because it involves alcohol and highly classified jets, which will be known as Air Force One when the commander-in-chief is on board.
A Boeing spokesman said the incident was a personnel matter. The company has said it is working to improve quality and manufacturing operations.
Boeing’s new Air Force One jets are heavily modified 747-8 aircraft known as VC-25B military variants. Employees need security clearances to work on the aircraft. In court papers in a supplier dispute earlier this year, Boeing attorneys described the aircraft as “effectively an airborne seat of government” ranking alongside defense programs such as ballistic missiles that carry the “highest national priority.”
Boeing internally doesn’t regard the discovery primarily as an incident of foreign object debris, known in the industry of FOD, as alcohol isn’t allowed at any of the manufacturer’s facilities, according to a person familiar with the matter. This person said the company took the finding extremely seriously.
A White House spokesman referred questions to the U.S. Air Force. An Air Force spokeswoman said that Boeing informed the service branch about the personnel matter and that there was no effect on the aircraft-modification work.
The Air Force and Defense Contract Management Agency, which oversees Pentagon suppliers, monitors production quality closely and holds...
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Damn someone found Hunter’s stash..or it might have been Beto’s
Maybe Boeing hired some illegals from Mexico to do a nice “tuck & roll” job on the seats.
ROFL
As long as the perps were wearing masks....I’m good with it.
Just no girls please or we will have to go looking for 007.
For god's sakes this country has gone off the rails.
LOL!
Maybe Boeing got stuck with hiring some racist white male mechanics and technicians with some gumption and spirit of fun.
Did he give Hillary a lift? It took a crane, by the way.
Wasn’t me. 12 oz. Hamm’s is my mark.
Back in the day one could tie one on at work and harass women. Those were the good days...
A thorough search will probably find an empty bottle of triple sec and some lime juice.
Yankee White clearance doesn’t guarantee good conduct, Apparently…
It’s easy enough to imagine some employee sitting in the President’s seat shooting a couple of airline bottles of tequila. I would be thinking about that myself.
Hard to resist posting those selfies.
One of my Air Force supervisors did auto body stuff as a hobby. He found a vodka bottle welded into the frame of a Ford. No way it got there any way other than at the factory, he said.
Oh, no! There is a Boeing employee who actually has a real sense of humor-that is NOT allowed-open an investigation immediately-call the FAA, FBI, CIA, etc-this felon must be found, tried and put into solitary confinement at the Colorado supermax, in the cell next to El Chapo...
No one can take a joke any more-WTF?
Was that one of Pelosi’s rentals?
Oh c’mon it’s a couple of those teeny bottles a with few drops in them. Couldn’t get a baby high on that.
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