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4 Takeaways About Boeing’s Quality Problems

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Interviews with more than two dozen current and former employees reveal longstanding concerns about quality, particularly as pressure increased to keep production going in the company’s factories. Boeing’s suppliers, facing similar problems, have also had trouble producing parts at the rate that Boeing wanted them. Since Jan.

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Alaska Airlines 737 May Have Left Boeing Factory Missing Bolts, N.T.S.B. Says

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The report intensifies the scrutiny on Boeing, which has been scrambling for weeks to contain the fallout from the incident, and it raises fresh questions about whether the company did enough to improve safety after two fatal crashes of 737 Max 8 planes in 2018 and 2019. Mr. Calhoun visited Spirit in Wichita. The N.T.S.B. 27 to Dec.

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‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

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They suggest that Boeing is struggling to improve quality years after two crashes of Max 8 planes in 2018 and 2019 killed nearly 350 people. And some suppliers have struggled to adhere to quality standards while producing parts at the pace Boeing wanted them. After the Jan. 5 mishap, a six-week F.A.A.

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Boeing Reinstalled Panel That Later Blew Out of 737 Max Jet

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Nearly three weeks after a hole blew open on a Boeing 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight, terrifying passengers, new details about the jet’s production are intensifying scrutiny of Boeing’s quality-control practices. In 2018 and 2019, two crashes of the 737 Max 8 killed 346 people.

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