Originally Posted by
Feathered
All technically correct, but Boeing will proudly say that they are responsible for the entire aircraft delivered. I believe Boeing owns the type certificate for the entire airframe,not just parts not built by Spirit.
If Spirit is building junk and delivering it to Boeing Renton without proper QA, why is Boeing accepting junk without proper QA?
What other flaws, problems, defects, missing fastener nuts, oval bulkhead holes, flawed flight control software, extra wrenches, bonus rags, and other rubbish is Boeing also accepting and happily delivering as-is to customers?
There are two serious vendors of civil air transport aircraft in the world today and the one that just had a piece fall off one of its aircraft unprompted was not Airbus.
If the guys across the Sound from me can't get their act together, we're all going to need to get used to overhead luggage compartments that barely fit a wallet.