{"id":37372,"date":"2024-01-31T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37372"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:42:19","slug":"boeing-was-once-known-for-safety-and-engineering-but-critics-say-an-emphasis-on-profits-changed-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37372","title":{"rendered":"Boeing was once known for safety and engineering. But critics say an emphasis on profits changed that"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CNN : <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York – Part of the fuselage blowing off shortly after takeoff, leaving a gaping hole in the plane, and\u00a0phones and clothing ripped<\/a>\u00a0away from terrified passengers. Investigations revealing sloppy work, including\u00a0loose or missing bolts<\/a>, instances of tools, trash and even\u00a0empty tequila bottles<\/a>\u00a0left inside planes built for government clients.\u00a0Worldwide groundings<\/a>. Halts to deliveries due to quality issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, by far, the most serious problem – two fatal crashes<\/a> leaving 346 people dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons again after the Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 incident. The National Safety Transportation Board, which is investigating, is expected to release its preliminary findings soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the Boeing of today and the last five years. But it wasn\u2019t always that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t that long ago that Boeing\u2019s reputation was that of a staid industrial giant, known for building the safest, most advanced planes in the sky. It helped introduce the world to commercial jet travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pilots and others in the industry, as well as members of the flying public, summed up their confidence in the company with the expression, \u201cIf it\u2019s not Boeing, I\u2019m not going.\u201d The company still sells coffee cups<\/a> and t-shirts<\/a> with that slogan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how in the world did the company whose brand was once synonymous with safety become mired in reputational disaster \u2013 to the point where at least one travel site has a feature that allows passengers to avoid Boeing 737 Max<\/a> planes altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts and critics say that Boeing\u2019s woes have been years in the making, some pointing to the result of a shift in corporate culture that started at the top and put profits ahead of the safety and engineering prowess for which it was once praised, placing not only its future, but the passengers on its planes, at grave risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Boeing denies there has been such a shift away from safety and excellence, what is indisputable is that its engineering and manufacturing problems have contributed to a series of shocking incidents, two of which resulted in the deaths more than 300 people combined. Boeing simultaneously became a financial basket case, losing more than $26 billion, and counting, over the last five years, with no end to the red ink in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing executives insist that quality and safety are still a top priority for the company, and the problems of recent years have only increased its focus on quality and safety. Asked for comment on the claim that it now puts profits ahead of quality and safety, the company pointed to a recent statement by CEO Dave Calhoun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the last several years, we\u2019ve added rigor around our quality processes, hired tens of thousands of engineers and mechanics, advanced key investments in our future, transformed our functions and gradually increased our production rates,\u201d he told investors in October. \u201cMost importantly, we\u2019ve worked hard to instill a culture of speaking up and transparently bringing forward any issue, no matter the size, so we can get things right for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A week after Calhoun made the remark, the company delivered a 737 Max 9 to Alaska Air, the fourth it had built for the carrier that month. Code letters N704AL, the jet\u2019s door plug blew out while the plane was mid-air, less than 10 weeks after it was delivered, just minutes into the January 5 flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN : New York – Part of the fuselage blowing off shortly after takeoff, leaving a gaping hole in the plane, and\u00a0phones and clothing ripped\u00a0away from terrified passengers. Investigations revealing sloppy work, including\u00a0loose or missing bolts, instances of tools, trash and even\u00a0empty tequila bottles\u00a0left inside planes built for government clients.\u00a0Worldwide groundings. Halts to deliveries due to quality issues. And, by far, the most serious problem – two fatal crashes leaving 346 people dead. Boeing is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons again after the Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 incident. The National Safety Transportation Board, which is investigating, is… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37374,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37372\/revisions\/37374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}