Boeing has a much bigger drawback than a door plug blowing out of a 737 MAX 9 at 16,000 ft. It’s a recurring drawback within the govt suite that goes again a long time.
In a Instances op-ed column revealed Tuesday, Andy Pasztor, a former Wall Road Journal aviation-safety reporter, reminded readers of Boeing’s substantial checklist of moral and manufacturing screw-ups over a few years. There have been examples of pilfering delicate paperwork from the Pentagon. There have been repeated fines including as much as tons of of tens of millions of {dollars} for high quality management violations and theft from rivals. And, in 2021, Boeing ended a Justice Division legal fraud probe with a settlement that value the corporate $2.5 billion.
In all of those situations, company leaders had just about the identical response: “We screwed up, however we’ll repair the issue, we’ve discovered our lesson, so that you don’t want to fret about us any further.”
The Boeing PR division must give you some new traces as a result of no one believes the previous ones anymore.
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