helimarshaller
25th Nov 2008, 18:12
Production at Boeing's Military Helicopter Plant in Philadelphia has been stopped after a third incident of FOD. Full story at this link.
UPDATE 2-Boeing halts rotorcraft output after debris found | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustrialConglomerates/idUSN2149982520081121)
206Fan
25th Nov 2008, 18:36
One individual was arrested and convicted of deliberately placing foreign objects in an H-47 helicopter in May
Don't recall hearing about that incident.
Ian Corrigible
25th Nov 2008, 18:41
The article has the two May incidents confused: a worker was found guilty of cutting through a H-47 harness, but the cause of a second incident - a washer found in a transmission - was never confirmed.
I/C
SASless
25th Nov 2008, 18:54
§ 2153. Destruction of war material, war premises, or war utilities
(a) Whoever, when the United States is at war, or in times of national emergency as declared by the President or by the Congress, with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the United States or any associate nation in preparing for or carrying on the war or defense activities, or, with reason to believe that his act may injure, interfere with, or obstruct the United States or any associate nation in preparing for or carrying on the war or defense activities, willfully injures, destroys, contaminates or infects, or attempts to so injure, destroy, contaminate or infect any war material, war premises, or war utilities, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than thirty years, or both.
(b) If two or more persons conspire to violate this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be punished as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
Shame hanging went out of fashion here!