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Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has “Enormous Volume Of Defects” Bolts On MAX 9 Weren’t Installed (viewfromthewing.com)

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Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has “Enormous Volume Of Defects” Bolts On MAX 9 Weren’t Installed::A reader at respected airline industry site Leeham News offered a comment that suggests they have access to Boeing’s internal quality control systems, and shares details of what they saw regarding the Boeing 737 MAX 9 flown by Alaska Airlines that had a door plug detach inflight, causing rapid decompression of the aircraft. The takeaway appears to be that outsourced plane components have so many problems when they show up at the production line that Boeing’s quality control staff can’t keep up with them all.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Bean counter who ordered cuts on QC probably failed upward

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'd think corporations would learn from these types of failures. But no, not as long as endless growth is the overall plan. The yes men will keep cutting corners at the expense of safety and quality.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So far they've learned the benefit far outweighs the cost

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Especially if you can get a new job before something goes wrong. Get an upper management job, strip the metaphorical walls of copper to "cut costs", and use that on your CV to get a C-suite job somewhere else.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

What do you mean goes wrong?

Boring still isn't suffering for this. They've made their money and will continue to make more.

[–] abort_christian_babies@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Boeing cut roughly 800 quality engineers from their staff in favor of “technology”.

“Some of you will die, but, that’s ok with us as long as we appease our capitalistic overlords” -Boeing

One source of many: https://www.heraldnet.com/business/boeing-revamps-quality-control-more-high-tech-fewer-humans/

[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Apparently that program failed by their own metrics and they abandoned it.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Oh no. What a surprise¡

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“Our QC never finds any major issues, if we cut budget here, here and here we can increase EBIDTA, yada yada MOAR PROFITS since our processes are perfect anyway!”

The bean counter

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

And now that they've laid off all of QC.

QC still never finds any major issues. That means we never needed them.