MILAN – The troubles for Boeing are not over, and indeed the vicissitudes around the 737 Max 9, the Alaska Airlines plane from which a door came off in flight in January, are tinged with yellow.
Several new features do not leave the American giant of the skies calm.
On the one hand, in fact, the New York Times reveals that US authorities found dozens of problems in the production process of the 737 Max during the six weeks of checks after the crash on the Alaska Airlines flight: according to the newspaper, Boeing allegedly failed 33 out of 89 checks.
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According to rumors, the Department of Justice would have moved by launching a criminal investigation into the explosion of the door and would have contacted some passengers and crew of the January 5 flight to obtain information about it. The stock, which had already recovered from a 3% fall, recorded new losses on Wall Street.
But the dark contours we were talking about also emerge from another, tragic, story. Relating John Bennetta former Boeing employee who made headlines for raising concerns about the company’s production standards. He was found dead on March 9th and, according to what was reported by the Bbc Based on the medical examiner’s report, death was due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Barnett had a career spanning over thirty years at Boeing, from which he left in 2017 for health reasons. The company said it was “saddened” by the news, expressing closeness to the family.
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However, Boeing itself had ended up in the sights of Barnett, who since 2010 had held the role of quality manager at the North Charleston plant, where the 787 Dreamliner was built, an aircraft used mainly on long-haul routes. In 2019, Barnett told the BBC that some workers, described as stressed, had deliberately fitted components to the aircraft that did not meet production quality standards. Barnett also said he had identified major problems with the oxygen management systems on the planes, explaining that one in four respirator masks could fail in an emergency. The former employee then raised concerns about the assembly process being “rushed” and that the safety of the aircraft was compromised. According to his lawyer, who did not comment on his death, Barnett was in the middle of a whistleblowing lawsuit with the company, the practice that protects internal workers who report bad behavior on the part of the company they work for. He made accusations which Boeing has always returned to the sender.
Other clouds then gather over Boeing’s industrial future and concern the relationship with customers. Also weighing on the stock, which lost more than 4%, are the new data on aircraft deliveries: only 17 737 Max aircraft in February, of which six to China. In all, 27 aircraft were delivered last month and fifteen gross orders were obtained in February. Southwest Airlines “blamed” Boeing for the reduction of its forecasts for the year, already in recent days Ryanair had expressed disappointment at the failed deliveries with repercussions on programming.
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