Kris Van Cleeve – CBS News May 7, 2024
After being notified by Boeing that some company employees failed to complete specific inspections on some 787 Dreamliners but reported the checks as having been completed, essentially falsifying inspection records, the Federal Aviation Administration has opened a formal investigation.
The inspections verify there is adequate bonding and grounding of the fasteners connecting the wings to the fuselage. The test aims to confirm that the plane is properly grounded against electrical currents like a lightning strike.
A source familiar with the situation puts the potential number of aircraft involved as approximately 450, including around 60 aircraft still within Boeing’s production system.
The planes still in Boeing’s possession are being re-inspected, according to the FAA. A source briefed on the situation says Boeing engineers made an assessment that there is not an immediate safety issue because the 787 was built with multiple redundancies to protect against events like a lightning strike.
“As the investigation continues, the FAA will take any necessary action – as always – to ensure the safety of the flying public,” an FAA spokesman said in a statement to CBS News.
Boeing notified employees of the situation last Monday in an email from Scott Stocker, the vice president and general manager of the 787 program. The email, obtained by CBS News, says that Boeing’s engineering team has “assessed that this misconduct did not create an immediate safety of flight issue.”
Stocker credited a Boeing South Carolina worker for spotting the issue and reporting it.
“The teammate saw what appeared to be an irregularity in a required conformance test in wing body join. He raised it with his manager, who brought it to the attention of executive leadership,” Stocker wrote. “After receiving the report, we quickly reviewed the matter and learned that several people had been violating Company policies by not performing a required test, but recording the work as having been completed.”
Stocker told employees that Boeing has “zero tolerance for not following processes designed to ensure quality and safety” and that the company is “taking swift and serious corrective action with multiple teammates.”
That email comes less than two weeks after a Boeing quality engineer testified before a Senate sub-committee about concerns he says he raised about the production of the 787 Dreamliner that were dismissed by management.
Boeing declined to discuss specific numbers of aircraft involved, as it said it was still gathering information about the situation, but a potential population in the hundreds would indicate a situation that potentially had been going on for a significant period of time.
At this point the FAA has not determined there is, in a fact, a safety issue with the 787 or a shortcoming in the production process. Currently, the FAA has not determined there is not an immediate safety issue with Dreamliners currently in service.
The FAA investigation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Those official boeing photos should be enough to put off any potential buyer
So to get a job building aeroplanes I don’t need to be a sheet-metal worker or electronics engineer or a hydraulics specialist, I just gotta be minority, a woman or a homosexual? Not only did the chumps in charge not foresee aeroplanes falling out of the sky, they’re the ones on six and seven figure salaries.
“After receiving the report, we quickly reviewed the matter and learned that several people had been violating Company policies by not performing a required test, but recording the work as having been completed.”
Ah dontcha just lurv all of this turd world “enrichment”? If a Boeing jet falls out of the sky likely it is a racist jet.
LVPS*
Relatively, of course.
The minimum values of parameters that determine whether a civilization/culture remains sustainable at a given level are not widely studied (or, at least, not widely published).
I sense that, at some point, as we return to courser and courser levels of civilization, things that were well-known and taken as self-evident by our ancesters will again become, as a matter of survival, common knowledge.
* lazy, violent, promiscuous and stupid
Operator Flight number Aircraft type
American Airlines 11 Boeing 767-223ER
United Airlines 175 Boeing 767–222
American Airlines 77 Boeing 757–223
The FAA did sterling work checking out these three.
Planes, what planes. If the FAA had done their job, 9/11 would have been solved and the perps locked up.
Apparently a second whistle-blower at Boeing has lost his life.
And the only sound heard on the way down
(besides the screaming)
It’s only faaaaaaaaaair…….
“…Boeing engineers made an assessment that there is not an immediate safety issue because the 787 was built with multiple redundancies …
And they falsified the test reports on all of the redundancy systems too.
Divershitty just makes the world go round. Whoa! Is that a Boeing taking a head dive into the Smiths’ house?
Oh well, so much for divershitty.
IMHO..the real agenda is to destroy Boeing…whereby airlines and passengerswill boycott them.
Much like EV’s , the real agenda is to kill off auto manufacturers as they drown in debt with UNsold EV’s.
As the cretin Races are brought in, the Whites have to work harder, but eventually the challenge is too great
Diversity absurdity- there’s no being safe in those conditions.
It’s a cunning plan..gigantic monopolistic ‘jewe’ hedge funds buy controlling interests in corporations (you know who they are)..force competitors out of business..buy them up for pennies and then force compliance to insane social engineering strategies…thereby creating chaos.. and ‘profit’ and ‘value’..for themselves..
Capitalism itself is an outgrowth of talmudic mysticism.. this is why most of the Wests population resemble demented narcissistic
..’jewes’…
It’s also one of the reasons most yankees are circum-sized and libertarian… though of course they wouldn’t think that.. because they don’t understand that capitalism favours capitalists..not peasants..
Those individuals at Boeing who falsified records need serious prison time.