Well it’s a good thing they did stock buybacks instead of investing in basic safety and inspection practices. Seems to have really worked out well in the long term.
Or instead of investing in a redundancy or software failsafe for the angle-of-attack sensor that was problematic back in 2019.
Nothing can be done! If we add a backup AOA sensor the cost of the plane will increase by 0,00001% tHiNk Of ThE ShArEhOlDeRs!!1!!
Or investing in a plane design that was not lopsided due to being rushed out the door to compete with Airbus, necessitating the need for the MCAS system to begin with because they also didn’t want to invest in pilot retraining on how to fly a lopsided plane.
They should have used self sealing stem bolts.
If you need any, I’ve heard about a couple of guys on a station looking to unload a bunch of them for a good price.
I don’t have any latinum, but I might get my hands on… other goods. Trade?
Have faith and the Great River shall provide.
Do you have any yamok sauce?
About 5000 bottles
“Really?! Every single conference room already has a meeting scheduled?! You guys, I told you I was gonna meet with the reporter today, and he just called and said he’s on his way, and I just… Y’know what, fuck it, ju- just give me those fuckin chairs…”
“Mr. Minicucci, are you crying?”
“No! No, that’s a stupid quest- you’re crying! Butt munch… sniff”
Soon
"Tom, I’m more than frustrated and disappointed…
(on a serious note, fuck Boeing, they’re literally a bunch of murderers who made piles of money and have never been properly held to account for the hundreds of people they killed, but I saw that picture in the article and couldn’t not imagine this)
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- Boeing Marketing
Jfc have these people never heard of Loctite or Rocksett?
Why waste money on that when the executive board has greens fees to pay for?
Because you can probably buy loctite wholesale cheaper than the cost of recalls, settlements, inspections, hit to reputation, etc. One of those “spend now to save later” deals.
If they were smart anyway. Also dead people or whatever, maybe they’ll haunt his mansion.
They’re smart enough to realize they’ll get their bonus and a job elsewhere before any of that bad stuff happens
“it’ll hold till the check clears”
I have to wonder if the loose bolts are an additional problem not really related to the door falling off. Bolts should have lock wire keeping them in place. Even if they are loose, a door could be rattling or hissing air, but I’m not sure how it comes off. I’m not an ME, or a manufacturer, so I could be wrong, but if so, I’d like to know how that happens.
A current working theory (from people more expert than me) is that Spirit Aerosystems (who builds the fuselage) does a loose install of the door for transport to Boeing, who then does a final install of the interior. Since this door is usually removed for the interior installation the theory is that it isn’t and the loose install is what has ended up on otherwise flight worthy planes.
I was recently in Wichita at the airport where spirit aerosystems builds fuselages and could see a large Boeing plane that transports the fuselage inside it to Washington to be finished
It’s definitely a huge warning.
Kinda the brown m&m test
This principle is named after a rock band (Van Halen), who had a “brown M&M’s clause” in their contracts with event organizers, stipulating that the organizers must provide M&M’s in the backstage area, but that there must be no brown M&M’s available. This small clause gave the band an easy way to check whether organizers actually paid attention to all the details in the contract, which was important given how complicated and potentially dangerous the band’s production was.
The fuselage is manufactured in Kansas before being shipped by rail to Washington for final fit-out and assembly. The door plugs are put in place in Kansas, but not tightened down to flight spec because it’s expected that Boeing will take them off again to fit out the interior, then bolt them down to spec. One theory I’ve heard is that Boeing’s not using the plug doors to move in seats and lavatories and what have you, and no one thought to double check the plug doors afterwards in Washington because no one has touched them since it arrived from Kansas.
s/loose/missing/g
Hmm…don’t they check the bolts occasionally? Seems like they would, but I guess not.
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