Boeing has an even bigger drawback than a door plug blowing out of a 737 MAX 9 at 16,000 toes. It’s a recurring drawback within the government suite that goes again many years.
In a Occasions op-ed column printed Tuesday, Andy Pasztor, a former Wall Road Journal aviation-safety reporter, reminded readers of Boeing’s substantial record 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 felony fraud probe with a settlement that value the corporate $2.5 billion.
In all of those cases, company leaders had just about the identical response: “We screwed up, however we are going to repair the issue, we’ve realized our lesson, so that you don’t want to fret about us any more.”
The Boeing PR division must provide you with some new strains as a result of no person believes the outdated ones anymore.
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