Still Cannot Make Planes

Upgrading Boeing to a buy after they assassinated a whistleblower in the middle of his deposition

— The Fearless Truth Teller (@SeanMcCarthyCom) March 12, 2024

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was found dead in his car of a, "Self inflicted gun show wound," on the morning that he was to testify.
How convenient.

Do you know what's not a good look for Boeing?

Failing almost 40% of the audits into the 737 MAX production line in the most recent FAA examination.

The FAA is understaffed, underfunded, and ridiculously deferential to Boeing, so it comes close to what is called a statement against interest, which gives the poor results even more credibility"

A six-week audit by the Federal Aviation Administration of Boeing’s production of the 737 Max jet found dozens of problems throughout the manufacturing process at the plane maker and one of its key suppliers, according to a slide presentation reviewed by The New York Times.

The air-safety regulator initiated the examination after a door panel blew off a 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Last week, the agency announced that the audit had found “multiple instances” in which Boeing and the supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, failed to comply with quality-control requirements, though it did not provide specifics about the findings.

The presentation reviewed by The Times, though highly technical, offers a more detailed picture of what the audit turned up. Since the Alaska Airlines episode, Boeing has come under intense scrutiny over its quality-control practices, and the findings add to the body of evidence about manufacturing lapses at the company.

For the portion of the examination focused on Boeing, the F.A.A. conducted 89 product audits, a type of review that looks at aspects of the production process. The plane maker passed 56 of the audits and failed 33 of them, with a total of 97 instances of alleged noncompliance, according to the presentation.

It was even worse for Spirit AeroSystems, formerly, and soon to be again, Boeing Wichita, which failed over half of the audits.

Things that they found included using dish soap as a lubricant and using a hotel key card to check a seal.

Boeing is no longer a manufacturer of aircraft, it is a spin off of the Red Green Show.

In related news, 50 people on a 787 were injured due to a "Blue Screen of Death" incident:

Brian Jokat was asleep, buckled into a window seat on a three-hour Latam Airlines flight to New Zealand when the plane suddenly dropped, jolting him awake. He looked up and saw a man to his right pinned to the roof, and several other people seemingly flying around.

“You know in ‘The Exorcist,’ when the girl flies from the bed and hits the ceiling? It’s exactly that scene,” he said. “I was like, what the heck is this?”

What caused the midair incident that led to around 50 people on board the flight from Sydney to Auckland requiring medical treatment is now the focus of an investigation involving air-accident teams from Chile and New Zealand.

Chile-based Latam said the plane, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, suffered a “technical event during the flight which caused strong movement.” It didn’t give specifics.

Jokat, a 61-year-old Canadian, said there was no rumbling like he would have expected with turbulence. After the incident, he said, one of the pilots came to the cabin and said his instrument panel had gone black for a second or two, before lighting back up again. “He said, ‘For that split second, there was nothing I could do,’” according to Jokat.

In a statement, Boeing said it was thinking of the passengers and the crew onboard the flight.

“We commend everyone involved in the response effort,” Boeing said. “We are in contact with our customer, and Boeing stands ready to support investigation-related activities as requested.”

(Emphasis mine)

Yeah, this is what happens when you outsource your software development to the citizens of Chelm, because they work cheap.

Now we know why they work cheap.