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Boeing’s Fatal Flaw (2024)
As new questions arise about Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jet, FRONTLINE and The New York Times update an award-winning investigation into the design, oversight and production of a plane that was involved in two crashes that killed 346 people.
FAA findet dutzendweise Produktionsprobleme bei Boeing 737 MAX
Wie groß sind die Produktions- und Sicherheitsprobleme bei Boeing? Einem Zeitungsbericht zufolge ist der US-Flugzeugbauer bei über einem Drittel der Sicherheitstests der US-Luftfahrtbehörde durchgefallen.
Eine Boeing 777 der Fluggesellschaft United Airlines hat beim Start in San Francisco ein Rad verloren. Wegen des Beinahe-Unfalls mit einer Maschine des Typs 737-9 MAX steht Boeing unter verschärfter Beobachtung.
Airbus advertising campaign ideas:
"Our planes don't fall apart in the air."
"Our planes have all their parts."
"We don't charge microtransactions for plane components."
"The 'A' in Airbus shows our QA safety rating."
" Airbus, we can afford bolts"
" Airbus, because even the alphabet knows they Boeing is second best"
Nach dem Beinahe-Unglück der 737 MAX 9 nimmt die US-Luftfahrtbehörde FAA jetzt auch eine ältere Version der Boeing 737 ins Visier. Es handelt sich um ein Vorgängermodell mit größerer Reichweite.
A slap on the wrist ? A fine worth 0.01% of their annual revenue ? As long as greedy mega-corporations go unpunished, they will continue to choose profits over morals.
Sadly, these are the principles most new companies are also being founded on. End-users are just sheep that need a good fleecing. And then they can be stripped for hide.
As remarked here before it is not uncommon for #corporations that are in (or approaching) troubled times, to finally appoint a #female CEO (not least because the men have all stepped back in a risk adverse manoeuvre).
So, perhaps we shouldn't be surprise that #Boeing has just appointed its first female CEO, following two #Boeing737max crashes & just before the latest incident... it almost like the board knew things were about to get troublesome & said yup, now's the time to give a women a break
Morning thought: can we make stock selling illegal for certain public companies that have their customers' lives at stake, like, say, Boeing?
Think of it: the average Joe down the street from you who has stocks in the company has more deciding power regarding the airplane that’s going to fly you to your vacation next month than the engineers who built it.
Boeing-Chef verspricht Aufklärung nach Beinahe-Unglück
Boeing-Chef Dave Calhoun hat nach dem jüngsten Vorfall mit einer 737 MAX einen Unternehmensfehler eingeräumt und verspricht Aufklärung. Im Jahr 2023 lieferte Boeing mehr Flugzeuge aus als im Vorjahr.
What on earth is going on with Boeing? I feel like it's been years of one disaster after another!!!
"Profit Over Safety: Boeing Supplier Ignored Safety Warnings Before Door Blowout, The Lever Reports”
> Less than a month before a door plug on a Boeing aircraft blew off midflight, employees at Spirit AeroSystems, a subcontractor for Boeing, had tried to warn corporate officials about serious safety problems with parts for 737 MAX jets. But those warnings went unheeded, and the employees were told to falsify records, according to a new investigation by The Lever on a federal complaint filed by workers at Spirit. "In some cases, workers were retaliated against for trying to raise those alarms," says journalist David Sirota. "These workers in this federal complaint are alleging essentially a culture of defects, a culture of fraud, a culture of retaliation."
United Airlines findet lose Schrauben bei mehreren Boeing-Fliegern
Lose Schrauben an mehreren 737 Max 9 der US-Fluggesellschaft United Airlines verschärfen die Krise beim Hersteller Boeing nach dem jüngsten Zwischenfall mit dem Pannenflugzeug. United hat inzwischen offenbar bei mehreren Flugzeugen lose Schrauben entdeckt.