Ignoring the fact that Al Jazerra is involved, if one reads the Boeing Internal Audit Report ;
http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems...t_21,_2000.pdf
there should be some serious questions about the Quality Control procedures
(or lack thereof) that allowed problems to escalate to this situation. Especially read pages
2 and
5 of the report , e.g. regarding tooling, the hammer forming of parts and other unacceptable practices. Fasteners require hole diameters to tolerance, hard to achieve with components manufactured under those circumstances.
Pretty unbelievable, what else gets hushed up ?