Originally Posted by
Reely340
Or - as the a/c was a Boeing - the CoPilot wanted to adjuist his seat, activated his switch and the other seatr started moving.
Boeing has a long history of messed up cabling, swapping right with left :
Back in the days of me attending university in the 90ies there was a joke about a priest at his final visit to a death row imate carring good and bad news: bad was that the convict's appeal was denied, good was that Boeing did the cabeling on the electric chair.
(background given was a then recent incident, where extinguishing an actual fire in one engnie actually soaked the remaining good engine due to mis-cabling)
I was truly amazed at reading this from 2013 :
https://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft-j...oeing-787-woe/
Somehow they don't learn and do not fix their quality checks.
The 'merger' (actually a reverse-takeover) with McD didn't help. Boeing was once an Engineer driven company, now it's a marketing weasel-word driven company who allegedly mistreats engineers who speak up. Joe Sutter must be spinning in his grave, not to mention William E Boeing.
There's a line for you "Boeing. A company founded by a William E Boeing, now run by a Wile E Coyote".