Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has "Enormous Volume Of Defects" Bolts On MAX 9 Weren't Installed - View from the Wing
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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.

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.

  • skillissuerEnglish
    691·
    9 months ago

    Bean counter who ordered cuts on QC probably failed upward

    • 2piradiansEnglish
      270·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • troglodytisEnglish
        240·
        9 months ago

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

        • BakerBagelEnglish
          170·
          9 months ago

          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.

          • PatchesEnglish
            60·
            9 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.

      • RaxielEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

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

          • RaxielEnglish
            30·
            9 months ago

            It was Mentor Pilot video on Boeing, he mentioned they had some fancy automated QA system they pissed a load of money up the wall on, and in the end they still had to spend just as much on rework and it was scrapped.
            I’ve no idea if they hired new QA people after, but even if they did it wouldn’t be the same people back, what with their “brilliant” idea of shedding expensive, experienced staff in Washington and replacing them with cheaper inexperienced hires in South Carolina

    • monkeyslikebananas2English
      150·
      9 months ago

      “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
      • PatchesEnglish
        40·
        9 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.