Sun- How four missing bolts ruined Boeing’s 2024 flight plan
Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters in August that documents and interviews with workers show that Boeing has known for years about problems in its manufacturing program.
sad as it is for the good people and those that really try and stockholders yada ya, but l severely hope this is all chalked up to the truly *insane* DEI cloak they put on.
And the under performing union pr*^ks at Boeing and other union shops who have perfected their go slow work ethic.
Corporate headquarters near Washington DC, planes built 5,000 km away with a three hour time difference. Government has made itself that important to making airplanes. But no doubt the executives enjoy being near a political power centre. Boeing is “too big to fail”, they didn’t have to suck up to DC, they wanted to though.
The Titanic went down because the iceberg revealed serious flaws in its construction. The more things change …
my understanding is excess carbon content coupled by the near 0 temperatures made the hull steel stiff and brittle, the rivets popped instead of the ship getting a huge dent and flooding just that section.
Apparently, to save money, the company cut corners and used cheaper steel plates and many cheaper iron rivets. The iceberg apparently sheered the heads off of many of the rivets rather than ripping the steel open. Without the rivets, the cheaper steel plates came apart and broke instead of flexing. The damage was such that if these corners weren’t cut, the ship would have stayed afloat long enough to either limp into port or get most of the people off. The fact that it only carried a third of the necessary lifeboats didn’t help much either. Lifeboats? Heck, it’s unsinkable, isn’t it. Human folly and greed once again.
Failure to create bulkheads that were sealed at the top was another problem. Like filling an ice cube tray from the tap, the water cascaded over each one until the ship broke up and sank.
I was marketing manager at a whorehouse. Bulkheads were always a problem.
“When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”
-Harry Stonecipher, Boeing CEO and previously McDonnell Douglas CEO.
The bolts were put on by a Transgender “woman” who had a set of bolt-ons of “her” own … perhaps “her” surgeon should work for Boeing …
We make airplanes and sheeit.
The bean-counter management only cares about the short-term bottom line (and their end-of-year bonuses). As long as their liability insurance premiums will keep them from being sued into bankruptcy they’ll just keep on doing what they do.
Maybe they should quit hiring people who’s first airplane they saw was the one that brought them to the US. People from primitive societies might not understand the consequence of missing bolts at 35,000 feet.