Is there any connection (no pun intended!) between these parts and the structural parts dating from around the millenium supplied by a sub-contractor & supposedly made using computer guided tools?
See my postings various on this topic some years ago.
These parts required hammers and/or redrilling by hand on the assembly shopfloor in order for them to fit and stimulated the report by the victimised supervisors.
Maybe Boeing Board should lock up their senior management and restart with some old engineers and some old pilots in the new fresh design department?
That’s assuming they’ve got any dosh left to pay the rent on the Nissan huts they’ll start out with on this new exciting venture?
What a sad fate for a once great and respected aeroplane manufacturer.