Summary

Whistleblowers at Boeing allege widespread safety lapses, including missing or defective parts and improper assembly practices, driven by pressure to maintain production schedules.

A January incident where a door panel blew off a new 737-9 Max mid-flight has sparked investigations, with insiders like Sam Mohawk revealing that thousands of faulty parts may have been installed on planes.

Other whistleblowers describe similar concerns over quality control failures, managerial indifference, and retaliation for speaking out.

Boeing denies safety risks but faces ongoing FAA investigations amid heightened scrutiny over its practices.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    9 days ago

    Airplanes are loud,

    Active Noise Cancelling headphones (earbuds if you only fly short hop domestic) are your friends. Failing that? Consider earplugs but those tend to exacerbate pressure issues.

    the seats are cramped and uncomfortable

    Anything short of a car (and even then) in the US is going to be uncomfortable. Buses are somehow worse and even trains aren’t great for extended periods of time unless you pay out the nose. Hell, even a Japanese train gets bothersome after a few hours.

    What works for me is to sit in the aisle seat. For short hops it doesn’t matter. For longer flights? Being able to just get up and walk to the bathroom (or just pretend you are) once an hour goes a long way.

    and the passengers are often obnoxious.

    See above regarding anything but a personal car (and even then). But also? ANC Headphones help with this too

    Maybe you’re okay with unpleasant loud noise, discomfort and annoyance, but considering how much people hate those things in general, I think you’re in a small minority.

    Nobody likes the above. But we tend to like the places we are going a whole lot more. And we are willing to put up with a bit of discomfort in exchange for seeing the world.

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      Cool, I’ll just ignore my family with noise-cancelling headphones during a six-hour flight and demand I sit in a specific seat and make my wife and child sit elsewhere.

      You do know not everyone flies solo, right?

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        I’ll just ignore my family with noise-cancelling headphones

        Have you ever tried noise cancelling headphones? They are great for background noise and conversations that aren’t right next to you but you’ll have no problem actually talking to your precious family during said flight. In fact, it makes it a lot easier to hear the person next to you

        demand I sit in a specific seat

        Yeah? That is a pretty normal thing if you aren’t buying the most budget of budget tickets. And you wouldn’t subject your family to Ryanair, now would you?

        and make my wife and child sit elsewhere.

        You do you. But generally speaking, seats come in 2s and 3s. So you should be fine to sit with them. Or not. Up to you.

        So… what is next on the docket to establish why your suffering is unique and the entire world should reconfigure to make you happy?

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          Have you ever tried noise cancelling headphones? They are great for background noise and conversations that aren’t right next to you but you’ll have no problem actually talking to your precious family during said flight. In fact, it makes it a lot easier to hear the person next to you

          Except that was absolutely not true the last time I flew. Let me guess, I used the wrong kind of noise canceling headphones.

          Yeah? That is a pretty normal thing if you aren’t buying the most budget of budget tickets. And you wouldn’t subject your family to Ryanair, now would you?

          Really? It’s a normal thing to demand that I get the comfortable seat and my wife and daughter don’t?

          You do you. But generally speaking, seats come in 2s and 3s. So you should be fine to sit with them. Or not. Up to you.

          And, apparently, the solution you’re offering me is to make them uncomfortable at my expense.

          So… what is next on the docket to establish why your suffering is unique and the entire world should reconfigure to make you happy?

          What the fuck are you even talking about? I am reconfiguring by not flying. The rest of the world can do what it wants.

          Why do you care if I don’t like flying anyway?

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            Except that was absolutely not true the last time I flew. Let me guess, I used the wrong kind of noise canceling headphones.

            Apparently

            Really? It’s a normal thing to demand that I get the comfortable seat and my wife and daughter don’t?

            Nobody is telling you to fly first class. In fact, I specifically mentioned an aisle seat because I am cheap as hell. If you rae buying three adjacent seats you probably have one of those anyway

            And, apparently, the solution you’re offering me is to make them uncomfortable at my expense.

            Yes. I am specifically telling you that you must put your child in a shirt made out of human hairs to flight

            Why do you care if I don’t like flying anyway?

            I don’t give a fuck what you do. In fact, it amuses me that you are the kind of miserable sad sack who has to complain that the entire world is conspiring against you.

            But I also think you’re spewing nonsense and it is fun to highlight that so that nobody takes you seriously.

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              I don’t give a fuck what you do.

              This whole discussion and your entire post before that point shows that’s just a silly lie.

              If you don’t give a fuck, go away and stop arguing with me about why I don’t enjoy flying.

              In fact, it amuses me that you are the kind of miserable sad sack who has to complain that the entire world is conspiring against you.

              Please quote me doing that. You can’t, because it’s a lie.

              Edit: If anything is conspiring against me, it’s my DNA.

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        First, your username doesn’t add up. Second, you are going to drive the distance of a 6 hour flight? yeah, comfortable.

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          No, I am not going to drive the six hour flight across the ocean, hence me saying:

          I said I would never fly again unless I absolutely have to. Now I will absolutely have to and I hope to god it’s on an Airbus.

          Reading is FUNdamental.

          Secondly, I just came back from an 8 1/2 hour drive from Atlanta and I was quite comfortable. Room to stretch out in the car, able to stop when I wanted to, noise wasn’t too high, only one mostly non-obnoxious person in the car with me.

          It’s almost as if you and I are different people, isn’t it?

          Edit: Also, flying squid fly relatively close to the water and not for long distances. Passenger jets tend to do the opposite. https://phys.org/news/2013-02-bird-plane-squid.html