The microscope is being brought out and so I expect to see more instances of Boeing “good enough, passed by QA” turn out to be not good enough after all.
Personally the detail that really defines how deeply delusional Boeing management is, is the fact that the FAA had to refuse Boeing’s request to up the 737 production rate.
Everyone knows that the fundamental problem at Spirit and Boeing itself is too few, too new employee’s being ask to do too much too fast, yet Boeing wants to stress the production line more to generate short term profits and protect C Suite bonuses.
Boeing simply isn’t serious about addressing the root cause of the QA production problems. Instead we are see a continuation of the standard bean counter MBA playbook. Incentivize a culture where there will never be enough time, money, or people to do the job right and then scramble for find the cheapest, nastiest, fastest way to do the job over after problems get so big they can’t be explained away.