Posted on 01/12/2024 5:12:45 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A former senior manager at Boeing’s 737 factory told “NewsNation Now” that he specifically avoids flying on Max airliners due to safety concerns.
“I fly all the time. And even I schedule myself away from a Max,” said Ed Pierson, a former manager at Boeing’s facility in Renton, Washington.
Pierson said he’s even walked off planes after learning they’re a Max.
“They swapped the planes at the last minute, and I walked on the plane, sat down, and realized it’s a Max. I got up and walked off the plane,” said Pierson. “I didn’t take that flight.”
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Not for long, say the gods of the copybook headings.
That’s not gonna do the stock price much good.
A manager has to insist that an engineer or skilled manufacturing employee do a bad job and push trash out the door.
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Hmmmmmm, A case of history repeating itself.....There are some elements of what has gone on with the Max that have shades of what caused the Space Shuttle Challenger catastrophe… while the specific cause was the failure of the O-ring seals for one of the solid rocket boosters, the real cause was the culture of NASA that allowed the engineers’ warnings about cold weather launch to be overruled.
Sure, the MAX, built with diversity, inclusion and equity....better known as DIE..
Yup. This guy wants attention.
The comments are about the 737 max flight simulator and it’s training procedures, not the max itself.
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Great point, and well stated!
And Covid. You don't lay off half your workforce and then expect the remaining employees and new ones to crank out record levels of production in the next couple of years when things get better.
“Bolts not being accessible are a design flaw, which I mentioned.”
Accessible to who? Last time I was on a plane, virtually no bolts were accessible to me. Now if I removed interior panels (and somehow didn’t get arrested), I might find lots of bolts.
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