An inspector at the Newport News Shipyard signed off on welds that he didn't inspect. He falsified reports on thousands of welds, which means that welds on about 13 ships and submarines will need to be reinspected. This is after Newport News was caught using the wrong type of welding rods for several years' worth of welding.
The Russians had the best headline: Lazy inspector endangers US submarines.
I first saw this story in the New London Day; there is probably no shortage of schadenfreude going on since Electric Boat, in Groton, CT (across the river from New London) has been building submarines for over a century. The problem is that the Day only allows access to non-subscribers for 24 hours, so there is little point in linking to them.
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You bet your shiny metal ass there's schadenfreude at Electric Boat, because they played out that act thirty years ago. Their defective-weld scandal ended with the boss of EB, a chap named P. Takis Veliotis, permanently exiled in his native Greece as a fugitive from justice.
ReplyDeleteMight want to read "Running Critical" by Patrick Tyler, ISBN-13: 978-0060914417...good account of the whole bloody mess.