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> I love flying on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Then you really shouldn't watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os https://www.youtube.com/wa
by lqet 3y ago
> I love flying on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Then you really shouldn't watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
TLDW: Critical Dreamliner 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 small 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. They were later fired, after the US government allegedly leaked their identities to Boeing.
Here, a Boeing employee speaks about the work culture in the manufacturing plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os&t=1466s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os&t=1466s