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Watched the first 20 minutes, this is surreal. Critical fuselage parts didn't fit together because workers at the subcontractor (Ducommun) traced a template wit
by lqet 6y ago
Watched the first 20 minutes, this is surreal. Critical fuselage parts didn't fit together because workers at the subcontractor (Ducommun) traced a template with magic marker onto the material and cut and drilled the part by hand. Officially, the parts were manufactured by high precision CNC machinery with extremely little tolerances. At Boeing, if drill holes didn't match up in parts A and B, workers were told to just put the parts together and re-drill the hole in part B through the hole in part A, or hammer the parts into place. Internal Boeing investigators who found out and documented the issues were threatened to be sued if they spoke up.
- Symbiote 6y agoI watched about 40 minutes. The two investigators were later fired, after (they imply) the US government leaked their identities to Boeing. I wonder if they thought to report this to the European aviation regulator, after getting nowhere in the US.
- xwolfi 6y agoAt this point you Whistleblow to Airbus, they'll find a way to make it known, and make it stop.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoYou'll be better off contacting the EASA. A competitor will not want to meddle in this kind of topics, nor should they have to.
- Glawen 6y agoAirbus will do nothing, they are not interested in harming Boeing as they would suffer retaliation from US government
- ricw 6y agoWasn’t this the exact problem with the 787? Particularly in Boeing’s factory in the carolinas which is the only plant producing the 787? I’m definitely not flying the 737MAX, and this seriously makes me question the 787 as well as 737NG or in fact Boeing as a whole.
- lqet 6y agoAccording to this newer documentation, many workers of the South Carolina plant would never fly a 787. Because they know how they are being made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
- benhurmarcel 6y agoI'm not that surprised that some suppliers could compromise quality under pressure. But I'm very surprised Boeing's supply chain quality and design office could let such a part end up in production. I have experience in a different large aviation company, and this doesn't match my experience at all in the industry. I've seen parts refused because the label was stamped instead of printed like they used to. To make its way to production, the kind of defect we're talking about would need to be approved by an engineering specialist with FAA delegation. And in my experience these people don't sign their name on anything they remotely don't like, and they have means to escalate to the authorities in case of any issue.