But the fundamentals of the airframe are fine!

I know you're saying that tongue in cheek, but the airframe has been frankensteined too. Nearly all versions of the 737 have different fuselages, different wings, different engines, different horizontal stabilizers, and different vertical stabilizers. The plane is a friggin mess.

I know you're saying that tongue in cheek, but the airframe has been frankensteined too. Nearly all versions of the 737 have different fuselages, different wings, different engines, different horizontal stabilizers, and different vertical stabilizers. The plane is a friggin mess.

The plane itself is fine, a year from now no one will remember what a door plug is but lets hope this was the wake up they needed to ensure something this stupid never happens again.

Hundreds of people died. And stupid things keep on happening.

My first construction project was an industrial wastewater treatment plant at Boeing's military aircraft division in Wichita.

I remember Boeing calling in a rep from each company to chastise us about quality.
They bragged that they do not have quality issues. They pointed out what was at risk if they had quality issues.

This morning I read that the door blew off because someone at Boeing forgot to install some bolts.

My first construction project was an industrial wastewater treatment plant at Boeing's military aircraft division in Wichita.

I remember Boeing calling in a rep from each company to chastise us about quality.
They bragged that they do not have quality issues. They pointed out what was at risk if they had quality issues.

This morning I read that the door blew off because someone at Boeing forgot to install some bolts.

My first construction project was an industrial wastewater treatment plant at Boeing's military aircraft division in Wichita.

I remember Boeing calling in a rep from each company to chastise us about quality.
They bragged that they do not have quality issues. They pointed out what was at risk if they had quality issues.

This morning I read that the door blew off because someone at Boeing forgot to install some bolts.

At any given time there are around 7,800-8,500 commercial aircraft carrying around 1.25 million passengers in the air, 99.9% of them will land safely. I would have no problem flying on any of them.

John Barnett was just found dead. He had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

Self inflicted gunshot wound. Totally not suspicious.

Why in the world would he decide to end his life in the middle of a deposition?? If this was in russia, we would immediately smell a rat. Like you, l'm not buying it.

If someone on the defense side was going to kill a witness, wouldn’t they do it before he gave two days of deposition testimony, including a full day of friendly questioning from the witness’ lawyer? With a dead witness, the deposition becomes admissible.