da MORE PROFITs a Business Has - dA MORE SAFETY can be Implemented.

Boeing set to move headquarters to Arlington, Virginia, sources say
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All cynical comments welcome.

da MORE PROFITs a Business Has - dA MORE SAFETY can be Implemented.

dA MORE SAFETY can be paid in bonuses and to the share holders.

The accountants will tell you spending a billion or so, on more safety is a waste of money, when the cost of insuring to cover the costs of the few accidents, is only a few million/year.

WSJ sources suggest black box recorders from Boeing 737-800 indicate intentional input from cockpit

A China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March, killing 132 people, appears to have been intentionally flown into the mountainside below by someone at the controls, according to reports.
Analysis by US officials of the black box flight recorders found amid the wreckage suggests deliberate input from the cockpit forced the Boeing 737-800 plane into its catastrophic dive.
The Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed source who said: “The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit.”
The China Eastern plane was cruising at a steady altitude and speed before it suddenly descended more than 20,000ft in just over a minute, and crashing near the city of Wuzhou in Guangxi province.
Chinese investigators have led the crash inquiry but US officials are involved as the plane is US-made.

China air crash that killed 132 may have been deliberate, says US report

WSJ sources suggest black box recorders from Boeing 737-800 indicate intentional input from cockpit

A China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March, killing 132 people, appears to have been intentionally flown into the mountainside below by someone at the controls, according to reports.
Analysis by US officials of the black box flight recorders found amid the wreckage suggests deliberate input from the cockpit forced the Boeing 737-800 plane into its catastrophic dive.
The Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed source who said: “The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit.”
The China Eastern plane was cruising at a steady altitude and speed before it suddenly descended more than 20,000ft in just over a minute, and crashing near the city of Wuzhou in Guangxi province.
Chinese investigators have led the crash inquiry but US officials are involved as the plane is US-made.

China air crash that killed 132 may have been deliberate, says US report

WSJ sources suggest black box recorders from Boeing 737-800 indicate intentional input from cockpit

A China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March, killing 132 people, appears to have been intentionally flown into the mountainside below by someone at the controls, according to reports.
Analysis by US officials of the black box flight recorders found amid the wreckage suggests deliberate input from the cockpit forced the Boeing 737-800 plane into its catastrophic dive.
The Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed source who said: “The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit.”
The China Eastern plane was cruising at a steady altitude and speed before it suddenly descended more than 20,000ft in just over a minute, and crashing near the city of Wuzhou in Guangxi province.
Chinese investigators have led the crash inquiry but US officials are involved as the plane is US-made.

CFIT. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85359&postid=2096309#2096309

Boeing is moving its headquarters from Chicago to a suburb of Washington, DC. But some analysts think this move is one in the wrong direction.
Boeing was based in Seattle from its founding in 1916 to 2001. During its heyday it was renowned as an engineering-driven company that made the best, safest planes. But many industry watchers felt that reputation was lost as Boeing shifted to focus on the bottom line...

... "One company [(Airbus)] is saying 'We're going to build lots of jets.' The other [(Boeing)] is saying 'We're going to lobby the Pentagon and Congress for defense dollars.' It's a big contrast...

... The crashes of two of 737 Max jets that killed all 346 people on board the flights led to a crippling 20-month grounding of the plane. It also was one of the most expensive corporate blunders in history, costing Boeing in excess of $20 billion. But it's had problems, delays and financial charges for just about all of its other passenger jets too...

... already has nearly 100 lobbyists and a lobbying budget of $13.4 million a year ... "I don't think anyone would accuse Boeing of not having enough presence in DC,"...

... "Boeing's problem isn't a lack of access to government, but rather its ongoing production problems and the failures of management and the board that led to the fatal crashes of the 737 Max." "Boeing should focus on making safe airplanes — not lobbying federal regulators and Congress,"...

Boeing has published its 2022 Chief Aerospace Safety Officer Report which reveals a host of major changes to sharpen focus and improve culture...

... The realignment results in an even greater emphasis on safety as it increases transparency, collaboration and accountability across all engineering designs and decisions...

... All of these changes are an important part of the ongoing Boeing safety journey...

Deliveries of the 787 have been halted for a year as Boeing addressed inspections and repairs in an industrial headache expected to cost $5.5 billion...

... In February, the FAA said it would not allow Boeing to self-certify individual new Boeing 787 planes. Then-FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said the agency needed from Boeing “a systemic fix to their production processes. They’ve got to produce the quality on their production line that we’re looking for and that they’ve committed to.”...

The manufacturer this week was denied a standard request for a new, five-year period for self-regulation by the FAA, with the regulator instead opting to delegate that authority for only three years.

... “There are multiple in-work improvements that the FAA would like to assess within the Boeing organization over the next three years,” the agency said in a letter to the company. “We will review improvements to the ODA, including, but not limited to, interference, independence, timely implementation of corrective actions, Boeing Procedures Manual updates, self-audits and implementation of the Boeing Safety Management System.”

The heavier hand from the FAA comes in the wake of years of crisis at Boeing, including deadly crashes...

... The FAA has said it would individually certify each 737 MAX and 787 that comes off Boeing’s production lines.

... at odds over the cause of a problem involving fuel valves in the Starliner propulsion system that forced a postponement of a test flight last July, with the two companies faulting one another...

... Boeing in a statement ... acknowledged for the first time that it ultimately intends to redesign Starliner's valve system to prevent a repeat of the issue that forced last year's test-flight postponement...

... technical setbacks have pushed Starliner's first flight with people aboard into an unknown future, placing it far behind Musk's SpaceX, whose Crew Dragon capsule, developed under the same NASA program as Starliner, has already flown five astronaut crews...

... Boeing last week wheeled Starliner back to the launch pad for a third time ahead of the upcoming launch, having swapped out the propulsion system for a new one with a temporary fix that prevents moisture from seeping into the valve section. ... This approach was used in order to get Starliner back to the launchpad quickly...

... NASA officials acknowledged they had trusted Boeing too much...

... Boeing's Starliner capsule was heading for the International Space Station Thursday, in a critical uncrewed test flight that followed years of failures and false starts...

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft parachuted to a “picture perfect” landing in southern New Mexico Wednesday, capping a six-day test flight to the International Space Station...

... This time, the mood was jubilant among NASA and Boeing officials...

... “We have a few things to work on between now and then, but I don’t really see any showstoppers this time relative to last time, when we had challenges to the software and the comm (communications) system.”

The problems found on the 2019 test flight caused a two-year delay in the program. Last year, Boeing moved a Starliner spacecraft to the launch pad for a redo, but engineers discovered stuck valves...

Starliner could fly astronauts for the first time later this year...

Yesterday, Boeing gave Starliner a score of 15 out of a possible 10! Was the test flight really this good? Or is this the kind of hubris that we saw at NASA just prior to the Challenger disaster...

... Assuming the newly purchased five flights continue in sequence after Crew-9, the contract modification would bring SpaceX through mission Crew-14...

... NASA sees SpaceX and Boeing as keystones in its astronaut transportation needs in the coming years; the agency awarded contracts to both companies in 2014 for such work. NASA noted on that Wednesday it may need to use additional SpaceX flights as soon as 2026. Ordering more Dragon missions that may fly even after Starliner is ready provides important redundancy, agency officials said...

Boeing (NYSE:BA) closed -4.8% in Thursday's trading, touching a new two-year intraday low of $120.28, and shares have shed 26% since the company's big Q1 earnings miss on April 27, when it also said it would pause production of the 777X at least through 2023.

CEO David Calhoun had to defend the company's engineering culture after a raft of cost overruns and stretched certification timelines...

... This suit also [personally] names former CEO Dennis Muilenburg along with present Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and former Chief Test Pilot Mark Forkner.

• How has Boeing managed such a paltry payout for the victims of the two 737 Max MCAS crashes?
  

From my uneducated personal view: Such a paltry payout gives convincing credence that the lives of passengers and crew were 'sacrificed' for the sake of increased profits by avoiding the expense of design and pilot training...


All in our deadly greedy world...
Martin

..
From my own personal uneducated view: There's a deadly unhealthy mix of design, politics, and greed, all mixed up in there...

Fly safe?...

... The incidents, pulled from US government air safety databases, are among more than 60 mid-flight problems reported by pilots in the 12 months after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recertified the plane's airworthiness in late 2020.

Former employees of both Boeing and the FAA characterised the reports — which included engine shutdowns and pilots losing partial control of the plane — as serious and with the potential to end in tragedy...

Boeing is threatening the cancellation of the 737-10, the largest aircraft in the series, and one threat is currently attempting to seek approval from the aviation governing bodies...

Martin, I'm sure you'll like this ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-company-nyse-ba-shares-131058451.html

Snowflake Score

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Just how much was in that brown envelope???

PARIS/WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Boeing Co's (BA.N) 787 Dreamliner has returned to the world market for newly delivered aircraft at a time when demand for wide-body jetliners is finally stirring to life after a prolonged slump.

The U.S. planemaker delivered its first Dreamliner since May 2021 on Wednesday, in a significant milestone for the manufacturer after production problems with its wide-body jet

AS ONE door opens, another closes - quite literally...

... The award-winning farce...

... around the world for more than 50 years...

After 15 months of halted deliveries, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given the green light to Boeing’s inspection and modification plan for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner...

... In May 2021, deliveries of the 787 were halted following production issues dating back at least two years...

... Boeing was hit hard following the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX in 2019 and subsequent 787 manufacturing issues, with the company posting an $8.377 billion loss in Q4 2020. In its Q2 results released earlier this week, Boeing posted a $490 million profit for the period between March and July, revealing that it expects to meet positive free cash flow by the end of Q4. At the end of Q2, Boeing currently has 4,200 aircraft in its commercial backlog, worth almost $300 billion...

... Boeing has ~120 of the planes awaiting delivery.

The Federal Aviation Administration said earlier this week that it cleared Boeing to resume Dreamliner deliveries...

Boeing said July 27 it will take another charge against its earnings because of the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program as the company and NASA get closer to a first flight of the vehicle with astronauts on board...

... “driven by launch manifest updates and additional costs associated with OFT-2,” the second uncrewed test flight of the vehicle that took place in May. The company did not elaborate on the specific issues that caused the charge...

... The [Crewed Flight Test] CFT mission, NASA announced then, will last two weeks after earlier proposing to keep it at the station for up to six months. A two-week mission, the agency said, “is sufficient to meet all NASA and Boeing test objectives for CFT,”...

... If CFT is successful, Starliner could start operational missions as soon as the fall of 2023, after the SpaceX Crew-6 mission launching in the spring of 2023...

The latest directive and ongoing aircraft certification hurdles affecting Boeing’s 737, 787 and 777X aircraft models...

... instructing airlines to disconnect the Gust Suppression function on all US registered Boeing 777 aircraft models within three months, or before the aircraft has registered 75,000 flight hours, over safety concerns...

... it could lead to serious safety risks when it is defective [and cause an electrical fire? Or cause a false reading dangerously affecting the flight controls?]...

... Under the directive covering 279 US-registered B-777 aircraft, operators are required to disconnect the system connectors, cap them and secure the wires, as a temporary solution until Boeing develops a permanent modification that addresses the “unsafe condition,” according to the FAA.

Second directive

The recent directive is the second in less than two weeks after the FAA voiced concerns about potential electric discharges in the aircraft type’s fuel tanks in case of a lightning strike or electrical short-circuit. The directive issued last week mandates operators to install mitigation materials, and perform detailed inspections and corrective actions...

US law firm takes rare step of compensating families after California lawyer fails to hand over settlement money...