The FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the company disclosed that employees in South Carolina falsified inspection records on work done where the wings are joined to the fuselage body.
Boeing informed the Federal Aviation Administration in April that, despite records indicating completion of required inspections, workers had not performed some of those inspections to confirm adequate bonding and electrical grounding at the 787 wing-to-body join.
“The FAA is investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records,” the federal safety agency said via email.
Boeing said its engineers have established that this newly discovered lapse does not create “an immediate safety of flight issue.”
Nope. You are wrong. It is all about the move to force actual aerospace engineers out of management. Then it was the long hard drive to the bottom. Move away from a fairly strong union state, make ‘companies’ that make parts all over the US, assemble by non union workers (who have no power, poor training, and are expendable). Further, those folks NEARING retirement get nit picked to oblivion to quit before they are supposed to retire or are fired for mounting minor infractions. QA folks have been undermined constantly during this time.
All to save money in the short term. This is a story I have been hearing in the Puget Sound area for a decade at least. It is now finally catching up to them, but they are going to try to make the little folks eat it. These are C suite decisions, purely.