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Another Boeing Whistleblower Turns Up Dead
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If we were living in an episode of The Blacklist, someone inside the law firm would be responsible for the deaths. They’d be the common denominator that has the appearance of advocating for the whistleblower. They’d be part of an international operation, probably based in Russia, and only a Boeing senior official and another from an institutional shareholder would know about it.
My mother said to me last night this is like what they do in Russia. I’m just shocked neither of these guys fell off a building or “accidentally” fell from a multi-story window.
A few 737 Facts:
The plane was first flown in 1967 and has been in continuous upgrades ever since
Its competition was the MD DC-9 which is almost completely obsolete now
More than 11,000 have been built and more that 9,300 of those are still in service
There are still 4,000 aircraft ordered and in the production pipeline
More than 120 carriers have used the 737 and more than 19 countries currently use them in their military
They have been involved in 234 “aircraft hull lost” accidents but the airplane accident per departure rate for the current models is .054 per million departures and .027 per million for the current model
Are there some problems? Yes, windows (actually a hatch) don’t normally fall out of airplanes while in flight and generally, the manufacturers do a better job explaining what happens under certain flight conditions that cause the computer to take over. However, the 737 was and is a great plane.
A few more facts for you there, Colonel. Once upon a time, Boeing was a company run by engineers who knew how to build plans. Currently, it’s run by a bunch of MBA’s whose sole purpose is to wring profit out of the company for their shareholders. They don’t know how building an airplane works. They don’t know how it should work. They also pushed for and got–during the Trump administration, the ability to “inspect themselves”. Do away with outside regulation and regular inspections and you begin to see new planes being built and put into service where their windows fly off, parts come off in flight, etc. Boeing is desperately trying to rest on their past and their many laurels but this is not the same company that built those great planes. They’ve been hollowed out from the inside, another victim of corporate greed and know-nothing CEOs. But don’t worry, the current CEO is getting a great exit bonus.
I’m a little leary about chalking up an infection and subsequent stroke to malfeasance on the part of Boeing. I think it’s just an unfortunate event. John Barnett, on the other needs serious investigation. No way that man killed himself.
Colonel, the fact that this plane has flown for 57 years and the Mad Dogs are nearly all sitting in the desert might argue that it’s time for a new design, say the 797 that the bean counters nixed nearly 10 years ago. It’s been modified beyond it’s sell-by date, the latest iteration which required an (apparently unknown to many pilots) system to avoid retraining costs is way past the last straw. It was a great plane, perhaps not the latest iteration.