My memory is that Bombardier expanded into territory they had never been in; outsourced to their partners a lot of details; had significant issues during major-

My memory is that Bombardier expanded into territory they had never been in; outsourced to their partners a lot of details; had significant issues during major-part integration; and faced huge timeline crunches and overruns. They also missed completion and delivery of air-frames on contracts with regional airlines. And other signs of "we messed up" on a project. There seemed to be lots of complaints at the time (on Canadian forums and news-stories) about how the family that owns Bombardier would have been fired as C-levels in a public company based on this fiasco. OTOH, I haven't heard anything about this in a long time.