The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes. Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate safety of flight issue.”
The crackerjack managers running Boeing set up a plant in South CArolina so that they could use cheaper and nonunion workers. It came out last year that Boeing's SC airplanes had quality problems. Well, no mucking fit. Setting up a plant based on low wages, cost-cutting and pushing product out the doors isn't a great idea for making blenders, let alone large jets.
Anyone who trusts Boeing to fairly investigate and correct this latest issue has a large amount of gravel in their cranium.
The smartest decision NASA has made in years was to not give Boeing a sole-source contract for their Starliner. NASA gave the lion's share of funding for that program to Boeing and a taste of it to SpaceX. SpaceX's Crew Dragon has made eleven flights to the ISS, Boeing, well, they have yet to get off the ground with people on board. NASA would still be stuck with flying crews to the ISS on Soyuz capsules if they had gone with Boeing.
1 comment:
So Boeing built a space ship and after many explosive trials, they are ready to launch people they say. I have to wonder what will go wrong. They have lost trustworthiness and their products have glaring problems. I for one wouldn't trust them to get me to space and back. I hope the crew lives, but looking at Boeing's safety record, I have doubts.
w3ski
Post a Comment