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According to the Netflix documentary on Boeing’s culture and engineering problems, those have been there for years. Falsifying quality reports had been going on
by hosh 2y ago
According to the Netflix documentary on Boeing’s culture and engineering problems, those have been there for years. Falsifying quality reports had been going on regularly at Boeing. Quality engineers were harassed out of their positions, and this was all lead by the executives in charge.
This was the stuff that former quality engineer and whistleblower was in the middle of a five day deposition when he died to a gunshot wound. Allegedly “self-inflicted”.
This stuff isn’t being uncovered so much that there had been people loudly trying to tell this to the world for years now. What’s changed is that with the series of very public failures and flight safety, it’s become difficult to spin this away. In addition, the executives may be facing felonies — not for harassing whistleblowers, but in regards to flight safety.
It’s galling to hear them “celebrate” the whistleblower for the issues reported in this article. Boeing used to have a culture where quality was the top concern, ahead of profits. With three whistleblowers dead in the past several months, the optics is not looking good for Boeing. Maybe this is more spin.
- TedDoesntTalk 2y ago> With three whistleblowers dead I thought it is 2…?
- hosh 2y agoLooks like I was wrong. The Guardian article published four days ago reports two, not three.