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Boeing says workers skipped required tests on 787 but recorded work as completed

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Is there a reason a publication will write "Boeing workers falsified records" instead of "Boeing falsified records"? What do you think it is?

Legal. Boeing is a corporation and they don't have proof it was a Corporate Decision™

Meaning, we lean on the non-entity organization legally and perhaps some of its officers and accept defense arguments that were invalidated at Nuremburg.

Both Boeing and individuals will be indicted eventually, but I agree that Boeing (thanks Citizen United!) should bear the brunt of the punishment.

That is the result of a "hacker culture" spreading globally in a economy. Everyone just games the system, nobody wants to work anymore, as "work" is for suckers and chumps- and you are no chump, you are the CEO of your own little life and you want to do a stockbuyback, by cheating like the guy on top.

> he FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing after the company voluntarily informed us in April that it may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding and grounding where the wings join the fuselage on certain 787 Dreamliner airplanes

Forget doors opening in-flight - how'd you like wings falling off?

And now Boeing is back to blaming lower level staff again, as if circumventing the process isn't a management problem.

Keep in mind that this is a company that has had a ridiculous number of massive safety failures for air travel just this year alone [0].

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/list-2024-boeing-plane-incidents-af...

What incentives did they have to do this?

Sounds like it could be a system problem.

… or they could just be slacking.

They must be working from home... :-)

Imagine being part of a management that thinks when your workers lie on paperwork that excuses you.

Unfortunately Boeing has proven this is BAU and, apparently, it's acceptable.

It actually works great for them - by the time the fraud is revealed, the workers are long gone, the records who worked on what and who's responsible are conveniently "lost" and the manager in not responsible for anything - they always had the correct paperwork. Nobody to blame, "mistakes were made", let's forget it and move on. And the workers are not stupid either - they would pick up what is expected of them very quickly, and will know it's ok to lie as long as you aren't caught for enough time.

I’m on a 787 in-flight wifi right now. This is very reassuring :/

no worries. it has two wings. ;-)

Both thoroughly checked by the same team, it says right here in the document. Oh wait...

So why did you catch it now and not during QA? Or did you not do QA?

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