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Separating “manufacturing mistakes” only makes sense if someone else is responsible for manufacturing. As far as I know, Boeing is responsible for both the desi
by hnarn 3y ago
Separating “manufacturing mistakes” only makes sense if someone else is responsible for manufacturing. As far as I know, Boeing is responsible for both the design and the manufacturing of these aircraft so the difference is purely informational, but in terms of criticizing Boeing mostly irrelevant.
- Brybry 3y agoSpirit AeroSystems makes the fuselage for the 737 Max. [1][2] It's even in the article: "Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the fuselages for the planes, referred CNBC to Boeing when asked about the incident" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_AeroSystems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_AeroSystems [2] https://www.spiritaero.com/ https://www.spiritaero.com/
- bombcar 3y agoAt some point it has to be simple liability for the final seller, ignoring all subcontractors. Otherwise there’s too many shellgames you can play.
- piva00 3y agoBoeing decided to outsource to Spirit, Boeing is responsible to attest the quality of what Spirit is delivering for a Boeing product. If Samsung/Apple would outsource their batteries to Megabattery Company LLC and those batteries started to randomly explode we would all be blaming Samsung/Apple for not doing proper QC. I hope we all hold Boeing to a much higher level of scrutiny than cellphone manufacturers.
- peterhunt 3y agoFor all intents and purposes, Spirit is part of Boeing. Spirit was Boeing Wichita until 2005, and today Boeing represents 85% of sales.