What Boeing’s Door-Plug Debacle Says About the Future of Aviation Safety
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Securing bolts properly is about the lowest-hanging fruit of high-reliability engineering.
Really good article.
This comes as close to perfectly capturing my dismay and horror at the devolution of Boeing in the last few decades, as well as describing a level of rigor that I deeply wish was far more prevalent in engineering as a general practice across all industries these days. But “driving shareholder value” (thanks for that, Milton Friedman) is crushing one of the primary aspects that I think made American engineering so outstanding for so long.
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