Originally Posted by
tdracer
Boeing Commercial has some pretty robust safeguards to prevent tools and the like from being left behind. Strict restrictions and procedures for personally owned tools, check out and return procedures for tool crib stuff, etc.
I wonder if in their rush to set up the Everett Mod Center (where the 767-2C gets turned into a KC-46), the military side neglected to implement those same safeguards.
If true, bad on Boeing. Delay after delay doesn't help either (not blaming Boeing necessarily - I know how the AF requirements process works and why it takes 15 years or more to get a semi-reliable airframe operational).