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Boeing falsified records for 787 jet sold to Air Canada. It developed a fuel leak
Boeing staff falsified records for a 787 jet built for Air Canada which developed a fuel leak ten months into service in 2015.
In a statement to CBC News, Boeing said it self-disclosed the problem to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration after Air Canada notified them of the fuel leak.
The records stated that manufacturing work had been completed when it had not.
Boeing said an audit concluded it was an isolated event and "immediate corrective action was initiated for both the Boeing mechanic and the Boeing inspector involved."
Boeing is under increasing scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad following two deadly crashes that claimed 346 lives and the global grounding of its 737 Max jets.
On the latest revelations related to falsifying records for the Air Canada jet, Mike Doiron of Moncton-based Doiron Aviation Consulting said: "Any falsification of those documents which could basically cover up a safety issue is a major problem."
In the aviation industry, these sorts of documents are crucial for ensuring the safety of aircraft and the passengers onboard, he said.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday July 07 2019, @07:35AM (2 children)
You sure you want to group those together? The first couple are failures of individual components in complex systems, and the others sound like they were long-standing construction problems.
(Score: 4, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Sunday July 07 2019, @11:50AM (1 child)
Yes. The people in charge tried to cheat on all those things. They knew the seawall was too low. There were plenty of warnings that the wall needed to be higher. It might have been topped anyway, but still, it should have been built higher. The diesel generators were also too low, and in the event the seawall wasn't high enough, were guaranteed to be flooded.
AS we know, one of the most infamous disasters ever, the Titanic, could have been mitigated or averted in several ways. But many safety measures were ignored, thanks to the belief in the propaganda that the ship was unsinkable. Not enough lifeboats, charging through an iceberg field at night at full speed, and even such little things as the disregard of the missing binoculars for the crow's nest. Any one of those things could have made the difference. And then, the Californian shutting off its radio for the night and mistaking the distress flares as celebratory. It all adds up to one chance too many, a bridge too far.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday July 08 2019, @11:53PM
The distinction I was making was between something that was a problem from the beginning and couldn't be remediated without complete replacement -- bad fundamental design, poor building material choice, quality, foundation [youtu.be], or building design/safety codes, vs. things that could be fixed after the fact like earthquake bracing or replaceable components -- things that anyone after the fact could fix.
Both are problems, but the first one is literally building an undefusable time bomb, and the remainder is many people seeing problems over time and choosing not to fix them.