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The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams l Al Jazeera Investigations

Al Jazeera English · 5.7M views · 2014-09-10 · 48:23

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Overview

An Al Jazeera investigation into Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, featuring current and former engineers who voice safety concerns. It covers quality control problems at the South Carolina plant and the roots of the battery problems that grounded the plane.

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Boeing threads cite it as early evidence of deep cultural and quality problems at Boeing, years before the 737 MAX crashes.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2017–2024

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4d4m · 2024-01 · Strong recommendation

No matter how you may feel about (all) nation-state sponsored media outlets, AlJazeera deserves respect for this excellent footage they got from inside the factory. It's a few years old, but should have raised more alarm by now: [VIDEO]

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asteroidz · 2024-03 · Recommendation

Another worrisome development: [LINK] Al-Jazeera has really been on fire digging into Boeing. This video (though from 2014) was remarkable: [VIDEO]

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cjbgkagh · 2024-01 · Recommendation

The MCAS is what brought Boeing issues into the zeitgeist, but I was aware of issues at Boeing ~ 18 years ago from friends who had worked there and Al Jazeera did a great investigation ~ 9 years ago ( [VIDEO] ). Boeing used to be the gold standard and as someone who researches such gold standards it was disheartening to see them give that up. But that happened very slowly and started a long time ago. Clearly diluting focus away from safety is an issue for whatever the reason especially when the safety of airplanes is declining. This should also be taken in context that many aspects of manufacturing have improved greatly over the past 20 years so even if everything else stayed the same the general safety should have been greatly improved. So the drag on safety by the culture is bad enough to overcome these 'free' gains and end up with even less safe planes should highlight just how bad that effect is.

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