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⇒ All Things Boeing ... NASA may send Starliner home without its crew
For a Co. under a deferred prosecution agreement since 2021, BA has increasingly gone on an overdrive in peddling B.S. rather than making meaningful changes, which is not possible without an overhaul of the leadership team starting with the Board and CEO which is stacked with accountants rather than engineers.
I was going to watch it on Thursday when there is not much to watch. Please post the link if it reappears. I still have not completely watched Pig Butchering -
There are a few pilots on the board. Have them log, hmmm, 10000 hours in the air with the rest of the board, and several layers of management. Would probably be best to arrange this over areas of the west that are sparsely inhabited. Better yet, over the Pacific off Seattle.
Time for some long overdue SERIOUS punitive consequences. Will the FAA actually EVER get around to doing its job? You're going to tell me they're under-funded. That doesn't mean they can't prosecute and sanction the company. Boeing has become brazenly shameless.
Or, take the CEO and Board out to the Laurentian Abysmal and secure anchors to them all. Then let gravity do the job that needs to be done. *************************** "The Laurentian fan or abyss is an underwater depression off the eastern coast of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean. Not a trench, but more of an "underwater valley", it is estimated to be at most ~19,685 feet (3.7 miles; 6.0 km) in depth."
The March 3rd episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver featured Boeing. I watched it on YouTube but it has since been taken down.
Oliver broke the news to his followers in a Feb. 19 post on X (aka Twitter). “I know I usually share a link to our main story here on Mondays, but HBO has decided they’re going to wait until Thursday to post them to YouTube from now on,” the host explained.
Any one here thinking of buying BA, I would wait until tomorrow regular session.
A big ass Boeing plane with twelve wheels in the back and bound to Japan from SFO dropped one of its wheels (tire assembly?) as the plane was on a steep take off earlier today. I hope it is not one of those missing bolts situation Boeing is known to be thrifty about but the relevant Airline's maintenance lapse.
This incident is more likely than not to be a United Airlines maintenance issue- the 777 has been around a long time and as a general rule the wheels have tended to remain fixed to the aircraft.
What is very peculiar it that the flight departed SFO for Japan, but after dropping the wheel at SFO it diverted to and landed safely at LAX. Why on earth would a flight headed north to Japan divert south to LAX? Perhaps one possibility is that United may have had an aircraft at LAX which was available to replace the damaged aircraft for this flight.
@BaluBalu - I believe that you are correct- I seem to recall reading somewhere that the 2021 prosecution was deferred on the condition that Boeing cleaned up their act, which of course they promised to do, and which of course they did not bother to do. Still, none of this is good news for Boeing, and since Boeing is such an important company with respect to American manufacturing, export and defense sectors, not good news for the United States either.
By the way, your video link above to "Last week tonight" is both very accurate with respect to the company history, and utterly damning of Boeing's contemptible management practices. Unfettered capitalism at it's absolute worst.
Edit: I just noticed your comments over on the OT thread, and I see that you are in complete agreement.
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The March 3rd episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver featured Boeing.
I watched it on YouTube but it has since been taken down.
Is 10K enough?
Or, take the CEO and Board out to the Laurentian Abysmal and secure anchors to them all. Then let gravity do the job that needs to be done.
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"The Laurentian fan or abyss is an underwater depression off the eastern coast of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean. Not a trench, but more of an "underwater valley", it is estimated to be at most ~19,685 feet (3.7 miles; 6.0 km) in depth."
LOL. Not gonna happen.
A big ass Boeing plane with twelve wheels in the back and bound to Japan from SFO dropped one of its wheels (tire assembly?) as the plane was on a steep take off earlier today. I hope it is not one of those missing bolts situation Boeing is known to be thrifty about but the relevant Airline's maintenance lapse.
Time for Larry Culp to take charge of BA!
What is very peculiar it that the flight departed SFO for Japan, but after dropping the wheel at SFO it diverted to and landed safely at LAX. Why on earth would a flight headed north to Japan divert south to LAX? Perhaps one possibility is that United may have had an aircraft at LAX which was available to replace the damaged aircraft for this flight.
seems a reasonable explanation. Logistics is often complicated. Think of what the guys on the Red Ball Express had to deal with.
By the way, your video link above to "Last week tonight" is both very accurate with respect to the company history, and utterly damning of Boeing's contemptible management practices. Unfettered capitalism at it's absolute worst.
Edit: I just noticed your comments over on the OT thread, and I see that you are in complete agreement.
Boeing quality whistleblower John Barnett is found shot dead
To recap, in the OT section the articles on the Boeing situation are as follows:
• 1/7/24: Yet More Trouble on the Boeing 737... so it's asking for an exemption to safety rules
• 1/8/24: United finds loose bolts on Boeing jets grounded after blowout incident
• 1/9/24: FAA says safety ‘not speed’ will decide how long Boeing jets are grounded
• 1/10/24: Boeing 737 Max 9: A closer look at the much-discussed "missing bolts" -
• 1/11/24: F.A.A. Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design
• 1/12/24: FAA to increase oversight of Boeing citing ‘other manufacturing problems'
• 1/22/24: FAA: Airlines should check the door plugs on another model of Boeing plane
• 1/23/24: United Airlines re Boeing: "The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back"
• 1/24/24: Boeing's quality control: "A rambling, shambling, disaster waiting to happen"
• 1/25/24: Alaska holds Boeing accountable, wants to be made whole for $150M in losses
• 1/25/24: Airlines Hoping for More Boeing Jets Could Be Waiting Awhile
• 2/21/24: Head of Boeing’s 737 program will leave the company
• 2/26/24: Boeing Efforts to Improve Safety Fall Short, FAA Panel Says
• 2/28/24: FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix quality control issues
• 3/6/24: Boeing stonewalling National Transportation Safety Board, says top US safety official
• 3/9/24: Boeing Subject of Criminal Inquiry by DOJ
• 3/12/24: Boeing quality whistleblower John Barnett is found shot dead