Did you read the article?
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Yes interesting article. Musk doesn’t provide any evidence but he could be onto something, lowing admissions standards at Universities to get diversity could also be contributing to lower quality engineers qualifying etc.
The article recommends selling half and holding half of Tesla based on the fact Musk doesn’t know what he talking about. Even though Tesla is a market leader.
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Comment on an article about this incident. -worth a read.
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One of my favorite aviation incident pundits discusses the state of Boeing’s QA process:
This whole situation is like watching one of those 2 mph freight train pileups that just doesn’t stop…
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Classic. Very much what happened on the Deepwater Horizon. A crew under time pressure performs a task that is out of the ordinary for them and awareness is lost.
It should be noted that the spinoff of Spirit Aero from Boeing was the bright idea of some spreadsheet jockey and he and his fellow spreadsheet jockeys evidently never considered that what was previously one workflow tracking system was now two and maybe, just maybe, somebody should look into integrating them. Nooo, that would require knowledge of what goes on In the shop, and spreadsheet jockeys are above all that.
Nauseating.
Earl
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Good analysis. Hard to see it happening, though.
Earl
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Stonecipher said it all …
" When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm,” he said. “It is a great engineering firm, but people invest in a company because they want to make money.”
If he were honest he would have said - but we really would rather make money.
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Behind a paywall, but WSJ supposedly has reported that the NTSB found no witness marks on the door, indicating that the bolts were never installed. FWIW.
Earl
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I read that but sadly I know there will be little accountability. Regulatory capture should be a term everyone should know and demand an end to it…
The SEC has been captured by the people they are supposed to regulate and that should be scary as the potential to crash the worlds economy is real. The FAA can only crash planes by not doing their job.
Maybe the FAA will wake up but I doubt it. Money trumps everything and the congress is complicit. When is the last time a CEO went to prison? That is my litmus test.
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From:
“I would absolutely not fly a Max airplane,” said Ed Pierson, a former Boeing senior manager. “I’ve worked in the factory where they were built, and I saw the pressure employees were under to rush the planes out the door. I tried to get them to shut down before the first crash.”
Boeing had no response to Pierson’s remark.
Earl
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Airbus got shafted by P&W, so got their own problems
RTX engine issue will ground 350 planes per year through 2026
A crew, that was a whole bunch of cowboys to get the outcome they got.
I disagree, and I spent five years studying that event.
Earl
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BS, the management of the DH, supported by the corporate management ran that rig into an unsafe condition long before the disaster. They took their bonuses and ran before the thing blew up. One even went on to be the VP of another short lived drilling company. Money trumps all and until CEOs go to prison this will continue.I don’t know what it will take to make the regulators do their job but apparently a few hundred lives is not enough. Sad thing is there is now talk from the ruling class of abolishing the regulators or reducing their power. Of course that talk comes from people who travel on their own private jets
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Studied what was published or talked to people that knew how much a dogs dinner that whole well was plus how badly the rig was run.
Sure 100% assisted by the management.
Were they operating with a faulty BOP, yes, did they know yes. Just one of the holes in one of the many cheese slices.
Just a coincidence but I was in Houston when that happened doing some training with a bunch of Transocean guys, none from that rig but several close and most from overseas.
The guys working overseas ( not Americans) ) said we have written into our contracts not to work in the Gom, they knew how much cowboy the whole show is.
What everyone can get away with in the GOM you cant overseas especially from the majors.
I had to agree when I could see what our gom rigs did and incidents they had versus my rig in Asia it was jaw dropping really.
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More Boeing trouble as Dreamliner nosedives on the way to NZ:
At the same time a Boeing whistleblower is found dead:
One of his grievances was:
Coincident?
There has been a story circulating that the flight control system needs to be restarted at set periods otherwise it can freeze. Chilean authorities have the lead in investigating cause and have requested assistance from New Zealand. Our authorities are in possession of the data and voice recorders and Boeing are working with the authorities.
There is some urgency to finding the cause of the incident as New Zealand has 12 Dreamliners in its fleet and 8 on order. I have a vested interest as I’m due to fly in one in a couple of months time.