The following is satire. I'm certain that Hillary von Pantsuitness would never be involved in anything nefarious.
I also believe that Joe Biden is one of the greatest thinkers
and most articulate speakers of our time.
Posted on 06/30/2024 7:57:50 PM PDT by lasereye
Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward, saying that he witnessed 787 Dreamliner planes being built in a manner that could lead to a "catastrophe down the line."
Richard Cuevas was a Strom airplane mechanic who used to work as a contractor for Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems.
In a complaint filed by his lawyers to the FAA, Cuevas said Spirit AeroSystems workers were drilling holes into the fasteners of the plane's forward pressure bulkhead, which were bigger than what Boeing had specified.
In March, a few months after he reported his findings to Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, he was fired from his job, the complaint said.
A sprawling 204-page report by the Senate subcommittee investigating Boeing's safety and quality practices, released on June 17, cited accounts from numerous other whistleblowers.
These include Sam Mohawk, a quality assurance inspector for Boeing, who alleged that the company lost track of hundreds of faulty 737 parts and ordered staff to conceal improperly stored plane parts so that FAA inspectors would not see them.
Merle Meyers, a former Boeing quality manager, said that Boeing's manufacturing team regularly tried to retrieve bad parts from a "reclamation" area even after they were thrown out.
John Barnett, a Boeing manager turned whistleblower, said that safety procedures were ignored in the interest of speed and efficiency in building the planes.
Just days before he was supposed to give a deposition, Barnett was found dead from a"self-inflicted gunshot wound," the Charleston County coroner's office told BI's Matthew Loh.
Boeing planes have been plagued by technical issues in recent months.
Most prominently, in January, a door plug came off a Boeing 737 Max 9 Alaska Airlines jet at 16,000 feet.
It was the second crisis regarding Boeing's Max planes after two Max 8 models crashed in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people.
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I am curious as to how the corporate boards let their DEI loving managements destroy formerly great American companies.
Here's the top 3 Boeing institutional shareholders:
Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Newport Trust Co.
Disney's top 3 institutional shareholders:
Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street.
Nike's top 3 institutional shareholders:
Swoosh, LLC, Vanguard Group, BlackRock
Vanguard Group and BlackRock pop up in all three. It is not surprising that they are top shareholders of many companies, since they invest huge amounts of money. That doesn't explain how they are seemingly uninterested in changing the direction of these companies.
Mr. Cuevas should be careful. Dead men tell no tales.
The top-level Boeing executives should be stuffed into a plane completely flown, managed, and maintained by DEI hires, and then flown for 7 days straight in the most turbulent conditions possible — 28 refueling stops max without maintenance.
It could even be chinese agents independently killing these whistleblowers, who knows.
What if it doesn’t matter, in terms of making money.
For example, what if they own a major stake in all the airline companies. It wouldn’t matter if they tanked Boeing, they could make it up in gains on their other companies.
Even hard assets, bought up cheap by their other assets; zero sum.
Except for the proles (us). The herd could be managed in this way.
Drilling a hole too big can easily be fixed with washers.
I don’t know what this “airplane expert” is so worried about.
Drilling a hole too big can easily be fixed with washers.
I don’t know what this “airplane expert” is so worried about.
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I’d guess it has to do with metal fatigue or somesuch.
Please, please tell me you should have ended this with /sarc.
You don't drill holes in fasteners .
Now, it is possible to drill holes for fasteners that are oversized.
This can be problematic depending upon how oversized the hole is and what kind of fastener is being used and where the hole is located.
It also matters how the hole became oversized . Was it drilled oversize, was it drilled correctly and then over sized due to cold working or some combination of both .
Oversized holes are usually a non issue if an oversized fastener is used
Have seen entire fuselage skins removed and replaced in the field and it a certainty that there were oversized holes
Do they own Airbus too?
They’re grounding hundreds of A330’s over engine issues-
it would only make sense?
A terminated employee is whistleblowing!
I cannot wait to buy this stock on the next big market pullback.
Down 25% while Airbus is up 25% based on hyperbolic bs nonsense.
At least 15 Boeing hit pieces are posted here weekly for years on end. They’re moire villified than China and Russia added together.
Keep up the great work men!
In a pressurized bulkhead? Uh no.
Unless the hole is for a rivet or swage nut.
Should be easy to confirm with a set of pin gages.
Not sure how that would reflect on Airbus or why Boeing wouldn't have the same issues. Airbus doesn't make engines. What kind of issues?
When it’s about the share price and executive bonuses and not the quality of the product they’re just milking the formerly great reputation earned by people who seriously cared about building a great product.
I went to the 75th year celebration of the B-17. A huge party in a couple of large hangars and it was AMAZING. There was a video by one of the Rosie The Riveters...she said she made sure everything she did was perfect because “I wanted my boys to come home”. People in the audience were crying because of how great the people then were.
How things have changed.
Interesting observation from someone who's only been here two years... 
The answer is NO, BA does not employ the same engine on the bulk of their fleet.
Don’t worry about Airbus.
We need more Boeing hit pieces!
Or for abt 15yrs or 2009.
(I do LOL at the idea of new posters here given big tech has pretty much buried the site)
I think 15 is an understatement.
The hate America stuff has become voluminous-
it’s hard kewping track of it.
They insist on polluting these companies with DEI.
“holes too big”
If the specs called for a 0.250 +0.002 -0.000 then 0.258 could be “too big.” And 1.0” could be “too big.” There’s “too big” and “too big.”
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