From 24 Aug 2023... "Boeing and a key supplier find a new manufacturing issue that affects the 737 Max airliner" - https://apnews.com/article/spirit-aerosystems-boeing-737-fus...

"...Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems said they discovered improperly drilled fastener holes in the aft pressure bulkhead — which maintains pressure when planes are at cruising altitude – on the fuselages of some models of the 737 Max. Wichita, Kansas-based Spirit said late Wednesday because it uses multiple suppliers, only some units are impacted and it will continue to deliver fuselages to Boeing.

Boeing said the issue does not affect safety of flight, and 737 Max planes already in service can keep flying..."

Spirit was Boeing - Boeing Wichita - which B sold off to bankers in 2005. It's not "burned by X", it's "sold the plumbing, burned down the restaurant for insurance money". Except not even Tony Soprano would expect to get fresh pizza from a burnt-out shell.

The passive voice shell game in this article is absurd.

> Boeing Repeatedly Burned By Outsourcing

> Boeing's outsourcing strategy might be producing more problems than solutions.

No, no, no. Let me re-write them for you Chris Loh[1][2], since you've failed as a journalist.

Boeing's Decision To Outsource Repeatedly Harms Fliers.

Boeing's Decision To Outsource Causes More Problems Than Solutions.

Have some balls, man.

1. https://simpleflying.com/author/chris/

2. https://lt.linkedin.com/in/chris-loh-5b949040

The managers and the bean counters got cheap. I bet Chinese Comac airliners are safer than the Max.