Former Boeing employees and safety officials tell i the problems run deep at the plane manufacturer
Big ReadA criminal probe into Boeing by the US Justice Department is further shaking public confidence in the corporate behemoth CHARLESTON – Visitors arriving in Charleston, South Carolina – one of America’s most popular tourist destinations – encounter an arresting sight as they leave the airport and head towards the city’s historic district.
American airlines are now considering their options, but at least one of Boeing’s European customers remains loyal. Ryanair, which has purchased 138 737 Max 8 aircraft, is offering Boeing a lifeline by purchasing any Max 10 model planes US carriers now decline. Boeing embraced the 737 Max as a game-changer – the “most-efficient, single-aisle” plane ever designed, delivering “greater passenger comfort, excellent economics and improved environmental performance”.minutes after taking off from Jakarta, with 189 lives lost. Five months later, 157 passengers and crew perished when anThe jets were grounded worldwide until December 2020, while the company made changes to on-board cockpit software, and adjusted pilot training deemed to have been deficient.
“When all they’re talking about is how many planes are you going to deliver, beating Wall Street’s estimates and projections… and when the question from leadership is ‘how many planes did you deliver?’ and ‘how come you can’t deliver these other planes?’ then the entire logic, the entire fabric of the company is misguided,” Pierson says from his base near Seattle.
Alaska Airlines had sought to reduce the number of seats on the plane, responding to passenger demand for legroom, so the hole where a door would have been is “plugged” to create a relatively seamless wall.that generally, when an aeroplane door opens, “the first move is inward… because the door is always bigger than the hole.”
Like Hart, he believes that “this is much more than four bolts gone missing”. Questions abound for the plug manufacturer, Spirit AeroSystems, headed by former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan who served briefly as then-president Donald Trump’s Defence Secretary.
But some Boeing veterans believe the company needs to go back to basics. Peter Lemme spent 16 years working on Boeing’s avionics engineering team and toldIn the 80s and 90s, he says Boeing’s leadership understood that controlling the quality of the company’s products could only be accomplished in tandem with suppliers. “You need to stop producing bad parts and go back to the source and figure out what the problem is and fix it,” he says.
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