More trouble for Boeing

[west point]

Boeing is having a major cash flow problem with unable to deliver B-777 freighters. Due to GE unable to deliver GE-90 engines Boeing has over 10 777 without engines. Have to wonder if this is a result of GE's past missteps buying loosing companies and getting rid of bread and butter cash flow products?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...S&cvid=17061607479b47afa1b3d3aa6dd4c4df&ei=52

 

[Rover]

Boeing’s Downfall - Before the McDonnell Douglas Merger

Boeing today seems to be going from crisis to crisis, with its reputation in tatters and the press and much of the public reacting any time something happens to a Boeing aircraft – even if one of the pilots just SNEEZES wrongly.But HOW or WHY did we get here? How did Boeing, a gem of a company, that was once the Gold Standard of aviation engineering, end up with their name getting dragged through the mud this way? And more specifically, what role did Boeing’s merger with McDonnell Douglas have, in making this happen?Today I’m starting a series on… Boeing’s fall from grace. And in this episode, I will set the stage by taking a look at the history of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, to show how different these giants were, as they headed to a “wedding” that many now wish had never happened.

 

[slasher-fun]

Last Week Tonight also had a long segment about this:

 

[Rover]

Boeing Vs McDonnell Douglas: Who Absorbed Whom? Until the mid-1990s, Boeing was the aviation engineering company that all other aviation companies measured themselves against.But, when McDonnell Douglas and Boeing merged in 1997, an official described the pairing of the management of the two companies like “hunter killer assassins meeting Boy Scouts”!Why was that? How did Boeing’s exemplary focus on engineering just fizzle away, when the McDonnell Douglas execs moved in?

 

[west point]

2 deaths of whistle blowers will really bring out the conspiracy crowd.

 

[jiml]

2 deaths of whistle blowers will really bring out the conspiracy crowd.

...and reduce the chances of more whistle blowers.

 

[jis]

Some Boeing employees apparently falsified record of inspection of Wing - Fuselage join inspections. They recorded the inspections having been completed when no inspection was carried out.

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/...site&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com

 

[Devil's Advocate]

2 deaths of whistle blowers will really bring out the conspiracy crowd.

To be fair the 737 Max fiasco does seem to meet the definition of a conspiracy and when your negligence has slaughtered 346 what's another two?

...and reduce the chances of more whistle blowers.

It's amazing that anyone volunteers to be a whistleblower having seen how those who came before them were treated after they came forward. I remember watching a PBS documentary where a regulatory investigator explained that she warns every prospective whistleblower that they are about to forfeit their future employment and that nobody will be bringing it back including the government. Which is probably why they mostly come forward after retirement.

 

[west point]

t they are about to forfeit their future employment and that nobody will be bringing it back including the government. Which is probably why they mostly come forward after retirement.

Now these employers try to enforce NDAs which I despise.

 

[lordsigma]

None of this stuff helps with my flying anxiety and makes me want to fly anytime soon let me tell you. Sad to see how far they have fallen.

 

[west point]

These problems that occur on Boeing planes are being much overblown.
Metal fatigue happens often unexpectedly and business. Wheel bearings have failed just like NS at Palestine causing tire to fail or fall off. Even door have come off although the 2 DC-10s were cargo doors. Wing Slides have come off before. Nose gears have failed several times.

What as far as we know is the lack of proper inspection and building. The MCAS is still an ongoing problem although lessened by more training is in my B-737 pilot friends opinion not liked very much.

But it is not just Boeing but all businesses changing their management structures. Business major , accountants especially bean counters, lawyers, all who do not know the business, In manufacturing we see persons who know how to build their product and what the customer needs for reliability being forced out of the decision makers roles. Examples are CAF, Alstom, Boeing, GE United technologies, etc. OH!! Of course, Amtrak.

BTW the rocket failure is not Boeing's but the Atlas V.