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Boeing's safety vs. cost-control culture may be what sent a fatal aircraft into the skies
Internal fight goes back to amalgamation with McDonnell Douglas, engineer says (www.cbc.ca) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
How stupid to bash Capitalism!. It is the system that has made us live longer and make people realize their best. So You Communists who probably have not even read the Horror History of that defunct trash that made drumks by the millions and killed millions so a few bastards could live like kings or better., to say the least. Go preach your murdering system to another Galaxy, but beware the Galaxians will probably strip your *&^% before you get there. Sickos!!!
A really sad story. Ultimately, Boeing's problems started way back when the board of Directors decided that competing with Airbus meant changing the company legacy from one run by engineers to one run by MBAs. I've talked with multiple airline pilots who have been around long enough to know the characteristics and construction of both the Boeing legacy aircraft and the Airbus aircraft, and they all say that Airbus is basically a throw-away aircraft before the first D-Check. Too bad BAC didn't figure out how to run commercials that pointed that out.
It was before that see reply above.
Capitalistic culture will never end and we see this rampant out of control climate in all major corporations. Greed is a human instinct, not a trait and as long as legal loopholes exist, innocent people will suffer.
Yes, we must END evil Capitalism! Of course, you will have to shut down Airbus too since it is also a publicly traded company and makes many people and corporations rich. Good luck switching to some of those great Communist designs like the Ilyushin 62!
This 20 year old Fortune article is quite prophetic: https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/02/288426/index.htm. Some quotes, 'In 1997, Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, the St. Louis competitor whose historic caution and conservatism had allowed Boeing to all but blow it out of the jetliner business. Several McDonnell executives now occupy surprisingly powerful positions in the combined company. These include former McDonnell CEO Harry Stonecipher, ... whose brand of tough-talking, show-me-the-money management strikes many of the Boeing faithful as noxious and shortsighted. His ascendance is flourished as proof that, as the joke around Seattle goes, "McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money." More than one analyst uses the term "reverse takeover."'
'"If in fact there's a reverse takeover, with the McDonnell ethos permeating Boeing, then Boeing is doomed to mediocrity," says James Collins, co-author of the bestseller Built to Last, which used Boeing as a case study of sustained greatness and McDonnell as its "comparison company." "There's one thing that made Boeing really great all the way along. They always understood that they were an engineering-driven company, not a financially driven company. They were always thinking in terms of 'What could we build?' not 'What does it make sense to build?' If they're no longer honoring that as their central mission, then over time they'll just become another company." '
'"If in fact there's a reverse takeover, with the McDonnell ethos permeating Boeing, then Boeing is doomed to mediocrity," says James Collins, co-author of the bestseller Built to Last, which used Boeing as a case study of sustained greatness and McDonnell as its "comparison company." "There's one thing that made Boeing really great all the way along. They always understood that they were an engineering-driven company, not a financially driven company. They were always thinking in terms of 'What could we build?' not 'What does it make sense to build?' If they're no longer honoring that as their central mission, then over time they'll just become another company." '