Boeing CEO: Poor work caused hole in Southwest jet

[Flopgut]

They like those www.ranchhand.com bumpers down in Texas. Maybe SWA could get Ranchhand to come up with some diamond plate, bolt on stuff for Boeing weak spots? A Ranchhand radome would look cool!

 

[scoreboardII]

SWA already has that, you have seen some of the "Ironsides" haven't you?

 

[WalterSobchak]

General,

Does it make you feel like a big man to throw the kitchen sink it when you have nothing constructive to say.

You have no idea how much this little thing has enhanced my FI experience:

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[Chubaka]

I can see how if your job is to pound rivets into an airplane all day long, day after day, month after month, year after year........ after awhile you just don't care anymore.

 

[waka]

guess Boeing should of outsourced it.

huh? come again?

 

[Hose A. Jiminez]

I read somewhere that several dozen of the same variant and time frame were found to have no fatigue issues. These were the same SWA variants albeit at other airlines. Seems to point to something in the SWA magic. Not to mentiom, they've been heavily fined last time it happened. Maybe its just coincidental, huh.

SWA owns appx. 80 of the 82 airframes that were in question. There were 5 found with sub-surface cracks.

The fines we paid a few years back were for a breach that we discovered and self-disclosed, if you recall. Not coincidental at all because they are not relevant at all to this case.

 

[Golden Falcon]

ah yes but remember these incidents happened when General Lee was choking pablum down his mom/sister (one and the same) back...and dreaming of flying for Mesa..