Whistleblower from Boeing supplier says he was pressured to ignore defects during inspections

It's so crazy, I started a new job(IT) and my team has been contracted out to Spirit.

https://youtu.be/sT04hFvjZZQ?si=edt-bckRAZrB_zQ9

Dead man walking

Dont waste your breathe they are probably moving up to „murder suicide“

Every whistleblower should make public statements that they're not suicidal or incepting ideas of self harm. It's honestly odd to me that nobody does this, especially when whistleblowing on multi-domain organizations that are transnational and care more about money and power than doing the right thing.

Maybe but even if he dies there like 9 more right behind them.

Some Putin tea, you say?

Honestly virus, poisoning or any type of fatal sickness is the way to go. I saw Reddit threads all talking how it’s stupid to even suggest he was killed because it’s was MRSA as though nobody could have access to have access to a bacteria like that except honest medical professionals

No they have to keep changing the methods not to arouse suspicion. Probably this guy will be eaten by a cheetah or something like that.

Yeah but if we put safety first some exec would only make hundreds of millions instead of billions.

Recalls are them admitting something is wrong and fixing it. That’s not on the top of my list of things that are wrong with capitalism

I am also concerned about the upcoming space launch, they canceled at the last minute

"better, faster, cheaper... I can only give you 2 out of three."

seriously though, you can maximise profits or you can maximise quality but you can't do both.

if you balance the bottom line -- if profits and quality and (let's say) employee happiness are given more or less equal weight in operational planning -- you would have a net-positive outcome all around, except for the greedy mofo CEO who wants to maximise his own personal salary and stock options by de-rating all other priorities aside from profit-taking.

also mutual funds, shareholders, investment brokers... there are a lot of little piggies with their snouts in that trough.

"it is always more profitable to do things wrong."

Late stage capitalism is humanities bane

It's a problem of dwindling regulation and enforcement.

on the other end of the spectrum its no worse than people doing the minimum effort because they're government mandated to make 100 planes and they don't receive any incentive (money) for doing a good job.

the problem is neither system, its that regulators should always be a 3rd party.

That’s just the invisible hand of the free market

…slipping some plutonium into your tea.

Avoid balconies for the next 40 years.

They dont care. They already got their paychecks and bonuses. They won't be held accountable and can just move on to the next company.

Yeah those poor astronaut on Starliner. But don’t worry they promised to deliver and launch it eight years ago.

How did you get into that industry? Making parts for airplanes

It’s government contract? Don’t they just invoice the gov for anything. All I’m saying is that they have the ability to just produce a perfect part while still charging for the defects. Airlines wouldn’t want to throw anything that can’t be refurbed.

Ima take out a policy on his ass right now

McDonald Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's own money, replaced the Boeing executive board with McDonald Douglas personnel, and turned Boeing from an Engineer led company to a Finance led company.

McDonald Douglas' management engaged in over two decades of enshittification (although it wasn't called that at the time) and union busting, starting with moving their HQ from Washington to Chicago, then to DC, and moving Boeing assembly plants away from the experienced (and coincidentally unionized) areas to inexperienced (and very anti-union) areas.

They cut staff, quality, QA, allowed marketing to lie and overpromise (like marketing will do by default if not reigned in). They "definitely didn't bribe, because it's called something else by the people who get the money" government officials via campaign donations and lobbying, and used the gullibility of conservative voters to allow them to take over regulatory functions from the FAA (in the guise of reducing government costs), and proceeded to fail to actually hold themselves to the prior standards.

That "notoriously high quality, the engineering excellence that was a trademark of US industry" was stripped away and sold off, by corporate hucksters in the 80s and onward, who bought the lie about high corporate taxes and business regulation being bad, rather than it actually encouraging companies to improve themselves (since it was a better fiscal return on investment than solely shareholder returns).

In short, you can blame Neoliberalism for what happened to Boeing. They're not the only company impacted by it, not by far, but when most companies products fail, they don't fail in nearly as a dramatic manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

I’ve been in aerospace engineering for 25 years, but I don’t think I share your theory. The reason is because I saw the kind of stuff the old timers got away with back in the day (before my time). A lot of engineering mistakes, a lot of structural analysis reports they really boil down to “it’ll be fine, my gut says so” without the math to back it up. But it doesn’t really matter because the guys in the factory considered engineering an optional suggestion. They built it entirely on tribal knowledge, high skill craftsmanship, and just made it work. But manufacturing tolerances were huge. Things were cut by hand and beat with a hammer until it fit. I’ve seen aircraft fuselages, for instance, vary in length measured in feet.

I think what happened is that we’ve advanced the technology, both in the design and manufacturing, so that precision is expected. Everything is now computer modeled, CNC milled and CMM measured. And if a hole is out of location by literally the width of a human hair, the part is scrapped (in some cases). The benefit is that we can squeeze out much better performance and/or efficiency because of this precision, but the trade off is that they are more sensitive to process errors that would have been harmless 50 years ago.

Regulations, audits, and FAA oversight are vastly more than they used to be. So much so that I think it’s actually counterproductive. This is controversial in my industry, so take it with a grain of salt. But consider the issue of the blown-out door, if the leaked account is to be believed. Someone spotted a couple of rivets not sitting right. If it was the 1960’s, they probably would have said “eh, good enough,” or if they were really bad, Carl would have gotten his special hammer and tapped them until they behaved. Done and done. Instead, today, someone had to fill out paperwork about them and submit it to the system. Then a bunch of people spent days and days arguing about how to fix them and which of the multiple procedures available just for tracking the fix should be applied, how to interpret the word “remove” in the regulation, etc. This organizational paralysis continued while schedule pressure built and built until finally someone chose the wrong procedure just to get it done.

My opinion isn’t that modern aerospace workers are sloppier than their grandfathers. It’s a combination of modern designs being much less forgiving, and that they are so preoccupied with compliance and procedures and perfection that they can often lose the forest through the trees and forget, or not be empowered to, just do the right thing.

From memory Airbus delivering their planes first would have cause major losses in revenue so they had to rush everything to entice airlines buy their planes. 

Yachts First (TM). 

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Huh, I was thinking they were Standard Instrument Departures.

Like their planes, and any remaining threadbare justification for our economic system.

That's on the airline maintenance