Originally Posted by
Dee Vee
[re Al Jazeera doc] Most poignant is the bit where the factory workers on the production line say they wouldn't fly on it!
I found the 32-year-veteran Boeing aeronautical engineer declaring that SHE had been avoiding the 787 pretty thought-provoking.
Originally Posted by
20driver
[...] Given no hull loses or fatalities you can't really fault the safety record. [...]
Dunno. If you have a bunch of drug-addled employees installing fasteners any old way and this going unregarded owing to deadline pressure, does it have to have immediate consequences? Would it be noticed on a D-Check? Could it be that one fine day the Charleston-built ones start falling from the sky?
Originally Posted by
B772
I see Japan Airlines has just taken delivery of their first A350 which also happens to be their first ever Airbus. If it were not for the problems Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airlines experienced with the early B787 deliveries I have no doubt Japan Airlines would have remained a loyal Boeing customer.
When was the last time JAL purchased a non-American aircraft?