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Boeing Employees’ Safety Independence Under Scrutiny by U.S. FAA
U.S. aviation regulators are opening a new review of Boeing Co. after a survey of company engineers found a sizable percentage said they couldn’t raise safety concerns without interference. A survey conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration from May through July found that 35% of Boeing employees raised issues of conflicts of interest and a lack of independence, according to an Aug. 19 letter from the head of the agency division overseeing the company. The FAA action is the latest to look… (www.msn.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I worked with Boeing throughout the 80's and 90's as a supplier of flight controls and electric power. They were obsessed with safety and viewed it as central in their culture. They were led by aerospace engineers and aircraft designers like Alan Mulally who I had the privelege to meet with several times. I view their problem as a cultural one that started with the leadership change. Look at who the board brought into the organization and look what happened to the culture. Same as the culture of the company they came from. The new leqaders were not builders of businesses due to outstanding engineering and love of aviation, they are cost cutters and 6 Sigma black belts. People are not viewed as assets, they are viewed as expenses. It is terribly sad to see. Boeing is an American icon and has always represented the best in american ingenuity and integrity. It is very hard to restore that image once it becomes tarnished.
If commercial airplanes were crashing at the same rate now as they did in the early 1990's, airliners would be going down once a week. They are doing something right.
David , thanks for your insight . It must be heart breaking to see the drastic change that you witnessed . I sense that you felt a great joy in working for ,or suppling Boeing and had much pride in being with or affiliated with Boeing . But if i may say this about the Corporate leadership . Is it not possible , that the # of certification problems , they slipped by the FAA ,, is not just bad business , but criminally libel ? By the way i know the company that " they " came from . At that company , they suffered some catastrophic crashes . But thanks for sharing ...........DGR
Hello to all . I'd like to make a general observations on the comments that have been left by others .When i 1st joined the FlightAware news letter , the discussions where sensible .. Then the comments fell into conspiracy and anti government retoric . At this point it was clear to me , that the lovers of all things aviation ,were not around . So i stopped replying and reading the FlightAware articles . But it is nice to see a return to a polite discussion . Thats my general observation for what it's worth , DGR
Has letting foxes manage henhouses ever been a good idea?
When Boeing passed over Mulaly for the GE finance guys and moved the headquarters to Seattle that was the beginning of the end. Problem is it continues to this day with Calhoun.