https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/podcasts/the-daily/boeing...
The excerpt that stands out to me the most related the story of one of the whistleblowers finding pieces of debris within a 787 aircraft (between the passenger compartment and the skin), telling his supervisor, and then being told not to worry about it. In another case, a whistleblower in charge of defective inventory found that some of the items marked defective were going missing and ending up installed on aircraft to meet production goals rather than wait for a proper replacement, the red paint marking them defective having been clumsily rubbed off.
https://interestingengineering.com/boeing-whistleblowers-rep...
Boeing also has foreign object damage problems on the 787 and on the KC46 tankers. Looks like this story still has a long way to run.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/u-s-a...
I wonder what the odds are that the Dreamliner gets grounded (again) soon to have them all gone over with a fine-tooth comb.
If this issue is concerning to you I'd recommend you do the same. To make it easier, I've put the links to all the contact sites below.
United Airlines https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/customer/customercare
Southwest Airlines https://www.southwest.com/contact-us/contact-us.html
American Airlines https://www.aa.com/contact/forms?topic=CR#/
Find your Congressional representatives https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representati...
Moving the HQ to Chicago was a terrible idea. Companies like boeing should be managed by engineers not salespeople.
Dennis Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO, is an engineer.[0] And he apparently doesn't even have an MBA. It's hard to know exactly how and when he became seduced by the dark side.
Here's a summary (which I've posted before) of his egregiously bad behavior:
Oct 29, 2018 Lion Air crash, 189 dead
Nov 10, 2018 pilots already talking about Boeing
emergency airworthiness directive related to MCAS[1]
Mar 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash kills 157
Mar 11, 2019 Boeing CEO "confident in 737 MAX safety"[2]
[1] https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircra...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airplane-boeing-ceo...
The bottom line is always above all else. Or is it executive compensation? I always forget which is first.
"Why do you hate American jobs!"
At the same time, some high-up people in VW are paying for the emissions-cheating scandal, which arguably could endanger human beings and the environment.
When are people in Boeing going to pay for actually contributing to the deaths caused by this scandal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Defense,_Space_%26_Secu...
You don't hate the troops after all, do you?
Edit: Ah, the good ol' "reality makes me unhappy so I'll shoot the messenger" down-votes. I don't know why I even comment in any of the Boeing threads anymore.
Until this episode I was deliberately looking for 787's and such when booking international flights, despite what I had heard about the batteries, because I thought Boeing had to be just that much better than Airbus and their unintuitive UI's that I heard crashed AF447.
And now all that good will is gone.
I will wait for the emails and other documents to surface and see how they took the decisions after the first crash, if the engineers reported the issues but nobody listen etc.
Hopefully some lessons will be learned from thins and engineers from other companies like Airbus would speak if shortcuts that are not safe are pushed.
I thought the American airlines had all opted for the AoA disagree light, but now it sounds like Southwest didn't have it because Boeing lied to them and said it was standard.