Posted on 01/23/2024 9:32:12 AM PST by janetjanet998
Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 comes off while it was preparing to take off at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta Airport
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The nose wheel of a Boeing 757 jet fell off and rolled away while the plane was waiting on the runway for take-off clearance, with almost 200 people on board, an FAA preliminary report says.
Maybe it is not sabotage, and maybe it’s not affirmative action. Both of those are possible, but it is more likely that Boeing is now being led by accountants and not engineers, and a renewed focus on cost cutting has resulted a shift from top-notch quality control with unfortunate consequences.
It is crazy that more and more American companies are making inane DEI choices, and it’s easy to place blame on such choices for wings falling off and the milk boiling over, but proper attribution analysis would show that many of the issues started when Boeing shifted to an ‘enhanced profitability’ approach years back.Unlike Airbus, which is (literally) led by an engineer, when you have ‘financial types’ leading an airline they will always try and save costs.
That can come with dire consequences.
But it’s easier to claim it’s affirmative action (which, as a black man who has made it in life without the need of such useless crutches, I deeply detest). Makes everyone concur, all the blame is placed there, and then another Boeing plane loses a wheel or a door or its ability to maintain level flight (!!!) and the song and dance goes on.
When it is all about VERY poor leadership at Boeing.
Good points. I had not heard about the company being led by bean counters. So that would also have to be thrown into the mix of why so many issues have come to light recently.
“political officers in USSR “
At Boeing they call them “Chiefs of Staff”. It’s a new thing and it seems every senior manager gets one.
“This surely is down to Delta’s maintenance, not Boeing.”
Actually, maintenance is often by third-parties because it is difficult to have company maintenance at every airport.
Actually, maintenance is often by third-parties......
Right, but explaining that would have complicated the post.
In the end, it still comes down to the airline, since they are paying the bills and have responsibility for supervising the contractors. My (Retired) Project Manager genes would just love to hear the phone calls back and forth after THIS incident. Talk about the fit hitting the Shan......
When an aircraft incident happens, everyone runs to the log books to see who last touched the airplane. They know within minutes.
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