Boeing promises changes after getting poor grades in a government audit of manufacturing quality

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVID KOENIG
Updated 8:12 PM CDT, March 12, 2024

Responding to a U.S. government audit, Boeing said Tuesday that it would work with employees found to have violated company manufacturing procedures to make sure they understand instructions for their jobs.

The aircraft maker detailed its latest steps to correct lapses in quality in a memo to employees from Stan Deal, president of Boeing’s commercial plane division.

The memo went out after the Federal Aviation Administration finished a six-week review of the company’s manufacturing processes for the 737 Max jetliner after a panel blew off one of the planes during an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5.

The FAA reviewed 89 aspects of production at Boeing’s plant in Renton, Washington, and found the company failed 33 of them, according to a person familiar with the report. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that have not been publicly released – although they were reported earlier by The New York Times, which saw a slide presentation on the government’s audit.



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[dem4decades]

1. John Oliver did a great job exposing them.

Even Boeing workers don't want to fly on their planes.

[Wonder Why]

2. "We didn't care until it became public"

[Wicked Blue]

3. Someone needs to work with the executives to make quality, not profits, a priority

This problem starts at the top

[PSPS]

4. Boeing stopped being an airplane manufacturer way back in 2001 when it moved to Chicago

Now, it calls itself a "financial company." The foisting the self-crashing self-disintegrating MAX mal-design on the flying public was the inevitable outcome. They won't change. Their board room consists of charlatans focused solely on the next quarter's earnings, not on the manufacturing of safe and reliable airplanes.

[republianmushroom]

5. Damn, we got caught. But this time we really do promise. Well, until the next time we get caught.

Then we will promise, again. Sounds like a politician.
How many times have there ben promises ?

[Mysterian]

6. They moved production to South Carolina to avoid unions

That told me everything about the company's idiot leadership and dismal future.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Flying Teslas? Mercy.