Years earlier, she had asked a boss if he would let his children fly on a plane with the litany of flaws and non-conformances he was urging her to “pencil-whip”: “Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” he retorted, much to her horror.
Boeing’s gonna Boeing
A rich executive put the lives of others below penny pinching profits?
I’m shook.
Sounds like the planes Boeing sent to India had foreign object debris rattling around inside conduits.
That’s a ticking time bomb for random electrical failures, such as both engines shutting down right after takeoff.
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I recently had the privilege of cleaning up code by a big India out sourcing company. The code quality was some of the worst I have seen in my 30 years of programming. Then I found [this article] (https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/boeings-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers) about the same company writing code for Boeing.
that was a horrifying read as a software engineer but also as an Indian.
The company I work for did end up hiring many of the temp engineers from the company in that article, and the ones hired are some great coworkers, but there were many we didn’t hire.
I am genuinely curious why on Earth airline companies are still buying Boeing planes. The last 5-10 crashes all included their planes and it is a mystery why their shares didn’t tank more.
Because the stock market is a fucking scam.
I mean, yes, but what does that have to do with their question?
It is a mystery why their shares didn’t tank more
I’m dumb
Because what are you gonna do? Not fly?
Use an airbus
Eventually
Yes, that would be the sensible thing to do. Too bad that people are not sensible.
Airbus has a backlog of 8000 jets. Order one today and it will take a decade before it arrives. So airliners basically have to keep their current fleet flying.
they probably already bought too many of Boeing planes before these accidents happened. So what are they gonna do, put a bunch of Boeing planes in the back room and use Airbus? Still when i fly, I avoid Boeing like a plague. The problem is there are very limited Airbus flights for my route.
Planes they already have can’t really be grounded immediately without replacements. Buying replacements takes time and money. Negotiating contracts also takes time. Pre existing contracts tying a company to boeing probably exist in some places. There’s probably some incentive to not drop a somewhat strategic business on a whim. And maybe some people believe that boeing will start pulling their head out of their ass at some point.
And all that would be a hindrance assuming there is a will to stop buying boeing planes, AND move to another, potentially foreign business like Airbus.
Organisational inertia. Planes are expensive, and getting them and qualified personnel to fly and maintain them is a long and complicated process for the airline companies (and the governments supporting the airlines).
They get the news about Boeing being crap, but they can’t just reverse a decision in one day, because the decision to go with Boeing was made years or decades ago.
The real reason is that airlines don’t want a monopoly where there’s only one relevant manufacturer that can dictate airframe prices to them. That’s why you will see almost every airline trying to at least somewhat balance the scales between Airbus and Boeing.
Boeing is run too much by Wall Street.
What capitalist giant corp isn’t?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_private_non-governmental_companies_by_revenue
Including such recognizable names as Aldi, State Farm, Deloitte, Ingram Micro, and Ikea.
I like that Aldi is on the list which I think is a good thing(might be a little over my head). One of my favorite places to go.
Boeing is straight fucking scum, but that was the strangest plane crash I’ve ever seen. (LOL, like I’m an export.) The truth will out.
i’ve seen one, where the plane stalled after taking off and then kinda went backwards, then dove frontal again. if i remember correctly, unsecured cargo was suspected. it fell like a leaf.
found it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/may/01/747-cargo-plane-crash-bagram-airbase-video
I remember that, if I remember correctly, it was a tank, and they suddenly had a massive CoG shift to the back of the aircraft, causing the plane to pitch up and stall.
Ya it was military equipment that was not secured appropriately.
That is crazy, it looked like CGI.
a game glitching.
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