Another triumph for the Jack Welch management ethos
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The thing about turning a functioning company into a husk to be skimmed by executives and shareholders is that sometimes your employees will get the message:
The FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the company disclosed that employees in South Carolina falsified inspection records on work done where the wings are joined to the fuselage body.
Boeing informed the Federal Aviation Administration in April that, despite records indicating completion of required inspections, workers had not performed some of those inspections to confirm adequate bonding and electrical grounding at the 787 wing-to-body join.
“The FAA is investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records,” the federal safety agency said via email.
This is the latest in a long litany of lapses at Boeing that have come to light under the intense scrutiny of the company’s quality oversight since a passenger cabin panel blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
Boeing said its engineers have established that this newly discovered lapse does not create “an immediate safety of flight issue.”
On April 29, Scott Stocker, 787 vice president and general manager at Boeing’s assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C., sent a message to all employees there telling them that one worker had noticed the required tests at the wing-to-body join were not being done and spoke up about it internally. His manager informed executives of the lapse.
But try and make these hardheaded old greaseballs at McKinsey understand that.