Elf & Safety - all up in the air.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51058929

The release of a batch of internal messages has raised more questions about the safety of Boeing's 737 Max.

One unnamed employee wrote in an exchange of instant messages in April 2017: "This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys."

Another message dating from November 2015 appears to show how the company lobbied against the aviation regulator's calls for a certain aspect of simulator training.

"We are going to push back very hard on this and will likely need support at the highest levels when it comes time for the final negotiation," the message said.

In February 2018, a Boeing worker asked a colleague: "Would you put your family on a Max simulator-trained aircraft? I wouldn't."

"No," came the reply.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51499777

Boeing's crisis-hit 737 Max jetliner faces a new potential safety issue as debris has been found in the fuel tanks of several new planes which were in storage, awaiting delivery to airlines.

The head of Boeing's 737 programme has told employees that the discovery was "absolutely unacceptable".

A Boeing spokesman said the company did not see the issue further delaying the jet's return to service.

It comes as the 737 Max remains grounded after two fatal crashes.

The US plane maker said it discovered so-called "Foreign Object Debris" left inside the wing fuel tanks of several undelivered 737 Maxs.

A company spokesman told the BBC: "While conducting maintenance we discovered Foreign Object Debris (FOD) in undelivered 737 Max airplanes currently in storage. That finding led to a robust internal investigation and immediate corrective actions in our production system."

Foreign Object Debris is a technical term that covers any substance, debris or article that isn't part of a plane which would potentially cause damage.
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Boeing jeopardised the safety of passengers by cutting costs on the development of the 737 Max and escaped scrutiny from regulators before software flaws contributed to two fatal crashes of the aircraft, according to a report by US politicians.

The US manufacturer was forced to ground its bestselling plane after the crashes of a Lion Air 737 Max in 2018 and an Ethiopian Airlines jet in 2019. The crashes killed 346 people.

In a report published on Wednesday, the committee on transportation and infrastructure, made up of members of the US House of Representatives, said there had been “repeated and serious failures” by Boeing and its regulator, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in allowing the faulty aircraft to carry passengers.

The committee’s chair, the Democratic representative Peter DeFazio, said Boeing and the regulator “gambled with public safety in the critical time period between the two crashes”.

DeFazio said the committee found a “broken safety culture at Boeing” and “gaps in the regulatory system at the FAA that allowed this fatally flawed plane into service”.

The report comes as Boeing hopes for the imminent recertification of the 737 Max after software fixes and a new round of testing. The return of the plane to service is a key target for the manufacturer, which is cutting about 16,000 jobs under the twin financial pressures of the 737 Max scandal and the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced it to cut production further. (LINK)
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Ogh dear . . . unsafe at any altitude . . . US manufacturer and regulator in cahoots, who would have expected that? :eek:
 
Unless criminal charges are brought then the culture won't change. Yes there will be some shuffling of people, some will quit and be asked to leave etc, but the underlying culture allowed to fester at Boeing won't be changed until the people leading and those directly in charge of individual projects like this are directly threatened with jail time for their behaviour, which saw nearly 350 people dead as a direct result, but that obviously won't happen and nothing will change because to the managers and accountants "it'll cost more to go back to being an engineer-run company".

TL:DR - Nothing will change and no=one will be punished.
 
They also changed the name (a while back TBF) from 737 MAX to the new name of 737-8 and 737-9 in the hopes that the overwhelming majority of people won't know the difference (which is probably correct).

It's also true that, after the amount of intense scrutiny the design has been through, they're now going to be miles safer than ever before, something else the overwhelming majority of people won't know.
 
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