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Shame on you if you still trust Boeing - for anything Around the Internet Once a shining beacon in aviation, Boeing is headed for a catastrophic failure of all systems, ultimately leading to a fatal crash landing. It is being considered to file criminal charges against the company (Link) , on the grounds of events spanning the past years, including, but not limited to, the two crashes of 737 Max aircraft, killing 346 people in total. Investigations done by Netflix and others, and statements of former employees of Boeing draw a sinister picture of practices within the company concerning the handling of quality assurance and going through functionality checks of parts. This recklessness also lead to another incident some months ago at which a door simply blew out of a plane mid-air (Link) (also a 737). You can add this to the list of carelessness by Boeing: The two astronauts testing out Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft were supposed to begin making their way back to Earth on Wednesday night but instead they will stay on the International Space Station (ISS). [...] The vessel's return to Earth had already been delayed because of issues with some of its thrusters and leaks of the helium gas which pushes fuel into the propulsion system. Nasa is carrying out a high-level review of the technical problems before deciding when to bring its astronauts home. [...] The leak was extremely small and engineers believed that it would not affect the mission and so went ahead with the launch. But four further helium leaks developed during the mission and five of its 28 maneuvering thrusters cut out during the approach to the space station, four of which were restarted. [...] Nasa had earlier stated in a blog post that the leaks posed no safety risk to the astronauts because: “Only seven hours of free-flight time is needed to perform a normal end of mission, and Starliner currently has enough helium left in its tanks to support 70 hours of free flight activity following undocking.” But just a few days later, following high-level meetings, Nasa concluded that the scheduled return should be "adjusted" to a date in July. No additional information was given as to why the decision had been changed. [...] Finally, for Nasa, there is the critical issue of identifying the underlying cause of the helium leaks and thruster problems. Until they do that, all the analyses of the risks of a safe return of the astronauts and any contingency plans will be incomplete, according to Dr Barber. “Unless the root cause is understood, they are having to make a judgement about the return based on incomplete information. If you don’t fully understand the cause of any failure then you can’t say for sure that you have not got a systematic problem that will affect not just the primary propulsion system, but also the back-ups.” As a last resort, Nasa and Boeing can return their astronauts on SpaceX's Dragon capsule, which would be hugely embarrassing for Boeing. Source: (Link) I think it's time to delete all Boeing aircraft from my X-Plane folder. |