by Chris Black
This sort of thing is going to get worse and with increasing frequency.
>More than 170 Boeing airplanes have been grounded after a refrigerator-sized hole opened up in the side of a passenger plane mid-flight.
>The Federal Aviation Administration said it would order the temporary grounding of certain Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes after an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to perform an emergency landing on Friday following the loss of part of the fuselage.
>The plane had been traveling for around 20 minutes and had reached a height of 16,000ft when a portion of the fuselage collapsed, sucking phones, magazines and even the shirt off a child’s back into the ether.
Are you actually surprised by this?
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers-1.1280483
These things never really happened until they began building individual pieces of plane in various parts of the country, forget about outsourcing jobs in India and similar places.
It’s no coincidence that they moved a lot of production down south and are willing to tolerate higher defects for lower wages.
Guess who works for sh*t wages at Boeing subcontractors…