Perhaps Boeing executives should not have laid off hundreds of inspectors.
1 year ago | 3,200
I work with 2 people who were with Boeing for over thirty years. They both left in 2018, right after the company stopped paying into their pension.
1 year ago | 252
Boeing fired 900 of it's quality control staff 2 years ago so it's unsurprising the first planes to come out of them since fell apart.
1 year ago | 1,500
Thank you for not making a 10min video with exactly 5min of backstory and 4min 55sec of filler to deliver this one senctance news with this one picture.
1 year ago | 44
I worked for a Boeing contractor for many years and saw frequent dysfunction on the factory floor firsthand. I'm not surprised something like this happened.
1 year ago | 44
The merger with McDonnell Douglas absolutely ruined Boeing.
1 year ago | 170
Any public trust towards Boeing that remained after the first couple of crashes 4-5 years ago is evaporating. Fast.
1 year ago | 404
Draconian response! Fire one top-tier/CEO level employee without retirement or severance pay for every bolt that was missing on the plane!
1 year ago | 219
And here is RE with their 13min video talking about what could go wrong with the bolts. Turns out they weren't there all along, brilliant! Can't wait for another flight with a Boeing plane
1 year ago | 80
That's Boeing for you. Putting profits ahead of lives is their motto.
1 year ago | 167
Dad worked on the Concorde. He said every single washer needed paperwork to enter or leave the warehouse.
1 year ago | 82
So the door was actually held in place without them for two flight until it broke on the third. Just shows you how redundancy is important in the industry.
1 year ago | 225
If it's any consolation, the sheer amount of work we have to do on the Super Hornet variants I work on when they come "new" from the factory (they're basically just kept in preservation in some large storeroom) is astounding, so tbh, this doesn't really surprise me.
1 year ago | 21
QA 404. This mustn't happen. Usually there are enough procedures in place to ensure the safety of the aviation product. Honestly I am speechless that this happened at a reputable company like Boeing.
1 year ago (edited) | 120
Corporations skimming off the top to gain short terms profits will kill us
1 year ago | 21
Real Engineering
It looks like the NTSB has found the cause of the Alaska Airlines 737 Max door plug blowout. The bolts holding it in place were removed in Boeing's factory to perform riveting work and were never reinstalled.
1 year ago | [YT] | 7,758