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Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has "Enormous Volume Of Defects", Bolts On MAX 9 Weren't Installed (viewfromthewing.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Didn't they can 900 QC inspectors recently?

We should reinstate Roman crucifixion, but only for corporate executives that make deadly or potentially deadly fuck ups like this for profit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Public disembowelment. That's got my vote.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If this is true it could kill Boeing. I'm not sure the DC-10 scandal was worse and that killed MD.

...And speak of the devil there's a quote from an old MD CEO apparently bragging about fucking Boeing...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Here's a New York Times article from 2019 on persistent quality control issues during production of the Dreamliner, including one time someone left a ladder inside the tail of a plane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

MD bought Boeing with Boeing's money

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

it could kill Boeing

Boeing planes: grounded

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