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2024-03-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Boeing ‘Overwrote’ Camera Footage Of Work On MAX Jet Door That Blew Out, Can Not Identify Employee Who Worked On It

[ZH] Just when you thought it couldn't get any more bizarre or surreal, the Boeing story did just that.

As previously reported, the aerospace giant has been under regulatory scrutiny following a string of safety-related incidents since the beginning of the year (really, since 2019 when two of its 737 MAXes fell out of the sky like overpriced deadly paperweight, but let's just skip to the latest snafu), starting with a door blowing off a flight and continuing with multiple other incidents, including a cracked cockpit window, bolts missing on a wing, various wheels falling off during takeoff in at least two incidents and several engine fires/failures.

And as the pressure ratchets up on Boeing, it's becoming increasingly obvious that management is running the same type of interference it did during the infamous MCAS scandal and ensuing cover-up attempt which cost former CEO Muilenburg his job. Sure enough, on Wednesday we learned that Boeing - in a pure coincidence that Jeffrey Epstein would approve of - "overwrote", i.e. deleted, security camera footage showing work being done on a door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines MAX jet in January.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ] Top

#1 Boeing United Airlines flight LOSES a panel mid-air before landing in Oregon, the latest in a lengthy list of safety incidents for the embattled aviation giant

Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-16 00:21|| 2024-03-16 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 "David L. Calhoun is an American businessman who has been president and chief executive officer of Boeing since January 2020. He was previously Boeing's chairman and was appointed president and CEO after his predecessor Dennis Muilenburg was fired amidst safety concerns regarding the 737 MAX after two fatal crashes that claimed the lives of 346 passengers and crew on board." (Wikipedia.org)

Posted by Beldar Uneter3543 2024-03-16 00:57|| 2024-03-16 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder when they're going to re-introduce insurance kiosks at the airport?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-16 07:37|| 2024-03-16 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 The probability of so many planes in the error must have an industry estimated statistical variable of failures. Anyone know what that is or the rate of failure, which may have gone unpublicised nationally, prior to the door incident?
Seems a little too out of norm, given airbus and other carriers globally must have a significantly larger # of planes in the air. Especially considering maint standards globally.

Posted by Jefe101 2024-03-16 11:45|| 2024-03-16 11:45|| Front Page Top

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-16 13:19|| 2024-03-16 13:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Now mind you, under the laws post Enron, there's jail time for futzing up accounting records.
But you can loose quality records that might mean the loss of a life, and it's a woopsie.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-03-16 19:03|| 2024-03-16 19:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Lots of "gummint officials" have Boeing stock or sit on their board. If they suddenly became a mining equipment company the stockholders won't lose a dime.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-16 19:24|| 2024-03-16 19:24|| Front Page Top

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