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Last year, a former Boeing quality official warned that the factory that had 787 Dreamliner – one of the new company’s new plane models – was plagued by poor quality work practices and poor surveillance. John Barnett, who worked for the plane manufacturer for many years before becoming one of his most frank criticisms, said Boeing was building planes with “lower” parts And that his speed and efficiency mandate endangered lives. Barnett, who refused to fly On the Dreamliner, was also involved in a legal dispute with the company at the time that it deceased from apparent suicide.
Yesterday, the plane that Barnett had warned the regulators to break themselves in Ahmedabad, India, Kill all passengers except one. The worst disaster in recent memory aviation, the accident has stimulated new control of its manufacturer in the grip of controversy. Although it will take months to understand what has really caused the accident, if the source of the disaster ends up being a vulnerability in the technical design of the plane, it will not be particularly surprising. Barnett, whose death Conspiracy theories triggered Due to his participation in the legal affair against his former employer, he was part of a long list of criticisms that have long expressed their concern about the manufacturing practices of the company.
The 787 was launched in 2011, one of the advantages announced being that Boeing could make the plane more at a lower cost than its previous models. However, from the start, the plane was ridiculed to have an overly complicated assembly process. A criticism, Writing in 2013Note that the plane had been assembled by a convoluted network of entrepreneurs, some of which offered limited transparency. Another aviation commentator said it was as if Boeing had Said “F * CK it. Let’s throw everything we have known or used in plane production and use this new unproven method. ” Critics noted that the company had outsourced too many parts to too many different entrepreneurs and that there was a risk that all these elements Components may not adapt correctly When the job was finally assembled.
When launching, the plane was almost immediately plagued by technical problems. In 2013, A series of fire -related fires In planes, the cabins caused the EFF to the ground for every 787 in the United States until security problems can be resolved. In 2015, the US Air Safety Authority Discovered a software bug In the control units of the plane generator which could hypothetically cause a “loss of control” by the pilots of the plane. The plane too suffering from fuel leaks and other problems.
In 2019, the New York Times reported For the first time on the Southern Carolina factory where the Dreamliner was manufactured, noting that it was alleged “in the grip of poor quality production and low surveillance which threatened to compromise security”. Barnett – who, at that time, had already left the business – was heavily quoted in the article, saying that he had not “seen a plane [come] From Charleston, but that I would put my name by saying that it is sure and in a state of navigation. »»
After the death of Barnett, another repair who had previously been an engineer in Boeing, Sam Salehpour, stated that Gaps in the way the 787 was assembled could ensure that the plane “separates” into the air. Salehpour then testified on the problems before the Congress, Accusing his former company to be involved in a “criminal concealment”. He also suggested that something could “happen to him” following his frank criticisms. Above the same time, other Boeing denouncing people emerged from the woodwork to provide similar criticism from the plane manufacturer, Another is dead. In the spring, Boeing also admitted to Falsification of documents on the 787Communicating to the FAA that he “may not have carried out inspections required to confirm adequate ties and land where the wings join the fuselage” and that other misconduct may have taken place at the company.
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