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2024-01-14 Science & Technology

Boeing 737 MAX crisis escalates: More and more parts are leaving subcontractor Spirit AeroSystems with defects, insiders claim - and improved stats are due to 'staff being too scared to report issues to bully bosses'

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [33 views ] Top

#1 Good way to be sued out of existence. I'll give it to the Chinese who deal with post disaster findings concerning lack of quality control with executions of company owners.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-14 07:39|| 2024-01-14 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 No desire to fly anywhere. If we had trains like Europe, might consider travel again.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-14 07:46|| 2024-01-14 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 There is no such thing as high quality communist made stuff.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-01-14 09:50|| 2024-01-14 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 ^AK-47

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-14 10:16|| 2024-01-14 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Not so much high quality, the AK, as amazingly good bang for the buck from a thing that's made incredibly cheaply.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-14 10:24|| 2024-01-14 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 ...but more than adequate to carry for those you send in as cannon fodder.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-14 11:02|| 2024-01-14 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's the "Dream Team" That Made the Massively Failing Airplane Door

Posted by Angstrom 2024-01-14 12:26|| 2024-01-14 12:26|| Front Page Top

#8 When they moved the headquarters from Washington state (where the factories are) to Chicago it meant the sales guys had won. You now see the result.
The HQ move to DC means they've thrown in the towel on civilian product, and want to concentrate on mil equipment. The only real reason they continue to make civilian aircraft is they've got so much sunk into the development and production lines. Look for them to try to spin off the civil side over the next ten years or so.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-14 13:13|| 2024-01-14 13:13|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 above, I'm confident that on display is the DEI/GAY/Feminist amalgam that has supplanted meritocracy for the brief moments before the bankruptcy of Spirit Aerospace. Enjoy the prancing girls until you get your pink slips.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-01-14 14:14|| 2024-01-14 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Recent performance calls to mind MAD magazine's old parody of Aeroflot: The only airline that sells half-way tickets to any destination.

Posted by Tom 2024-01-14 14:24|| 2024-01-14 14:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Per my statement earier about Boeing giving up the civil market, I would ask naysayers, "When was the last time you saw a brand new Lockheed airliner?"

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-14 18:35|| 2024-01-14 18:35|| Front Page Top

#12 And didn't the US gov't bail Boeing out in the '70's or buy a bunch or its stock or something. Sigh....

Of course, Airbus is getting all kinds of orders now.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-01-14 18:39|| 2024-01-14 18:39|| Front Page Top

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