The Disaster of Boeing & the Whistleblower Killing.

well if you haven't heard yet Boeing is

a complete disaster it's a company that

has lost money now for 3 years in a row

they've been caught using dish soap for

lubricant and hotel key cards to test

fittings in planes and situations at

Boeing over the past few years

especially with the initial 737 Max

program led to the deaths of hundreds of

people partly due to poor training

manuals and iPad training videos that

weren't actually prop ly implemented by

Airlines whether it was Boeing's fault

or Airlines fault we have no idea but

what is going on at Boeing is a disaster

so much so that all of a sudden a

whistleblower who retired from Boeing in

2017 has just been found dead with an

apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to

the head and a gun in his hand with a

note in the other hand now obviously the

police department in Charleston uh North

Charleston in the area uh where this

death occurred in a holiday in parking

lot has uh suggested they're quite aware

of the suspicions around this case but

have still not provided any details as

to did he actually have any gunshot

residue on his hand if he shot himself

we should be able to see gunshot residue

on his hand around the area outside your

palm where you'd be holding a gun we

should be able to tell these things if

they had a proper crime scene we should

be able to know from ballistics which

that might take a little longer uh if he

actually held the gun at an angle that

he could have comfortably or would have

comfortably held sometimes when uh

somebody else holds the gun for you the

gun would be in such an angle that you'd

be shooting yourself in a weird angle

like this or whatever very kind of

gruesome and bad but that's extremely

uncomfortable for years these are things

that can be discovered so hopefully

Police Department is working on it

because this is really sus and it's

probably sus because frankly when you

look at a company like Boeing the

companies had a really long history of

well the stock basically going down this

is a company that has uh basically hit a

low in covid of about $89 it is up from

there but boy it has uh it's been

suffering as you can see here on the

week chart it's really had a hard time I

mean outside of covid yes you got the

recovery to about 180 it's had a hard

time staying in the 200s regularly

bouncing back down uh into the 180ish

range and so now the question is what is

going on at this company well let's talk

a little bit about John Barnett and

potentially how Boeing compares to a

company like Toyota it's a good

comparison to make here first John

Barnett the guy who killed himself had

quote unquote had some Choice things to

say for Boeing we're going to go ahead

and play that first after we play that

we're going to jump into what we think

about how Boeing compares to Toyota one

this is not a 737 problem it's a bowling

problem um and I know the fa's gone in

and they've done due diligence and

inspections to assure that the door

plugs of the 737 are are installed

properly and the Fasteners are tored

properly but my concern is what's the

rest of the airplane what's the rest of

the condition of the airplane and the

reason my concern for that is back in

2012 boing started removing inspection

operations off their jobs so it left the

mechanics to buy off their own work so

what we're seeing with the door plug

blowout

is what I've seen with the rest of the

airplane as far as Jobs not being

completed properly inspection of steps

being removed um issues being ignored my

concerns are with the 737 and the 787

because those

programs have really embraced the theory

that quality is overhead and nonv value

added um so those two programs have

really put a strong effort into removing

quality from the process when I first

started working at Charleston I was in

charge with pushing back defects to our

suppliers and what that meant was I'd

take a group of inspectors and actually

go to the supplier and inspect their

product before they sent it in well I'd

taken a team of four inspectors to

Spirit Aeros systems to inspect the 41

section before they sent it to

Charleston and we found 300 defects some

of them were significant that needed

engineering um

intervention um when I returned to

Charleston my senior manager told me we

had found too many defects and he was

going to take the next trip so the next

trip he went on he took two of my

inspectors and when they got back they

were given accolades for only finding 50

defects so I pulled that inspector aside

and I said it's really clean up their

act that quick that don't sound right

and she was mad she said no said the two

inspectors were given two hours to

inspect the whole 41 section and they

were kicked off the airplane one this is

not a 73 that was a TMZ interview with

John Barnett just days before he died

what's worth noting is the 41 section is

adjust the nose of the plane to just AF

of the cockpit Windows that's wild so

they were given 2 hours to inspect that

section found 300 issues and then they

were kicked off later when his team was

invited back to Boeing for a follow-up

inspection he specifically wasn't

invited but somebody else from his team

was forced to go rather than him and

then they magically only found 50 issues

somehow the other 250 were resolved and

I guess if you're given a checklist they

could be cleared off but then it also

makes you wonder were they if they're

being inspected by a different person

who didn't see what it was like before

and so this really begs the question of

what's going on at Boeing is this a

culture of manufacturing problems and

again how does it compare to Toyota so

first my understanding of the Boeing

bolt disaster which was sort of

foreshadowed by Mr Barnett's complaints

and whistleblowing about Boeing remember

when we had a midair door blowout door

plug blowout because bolts were missing

well my understanding based on some of

the latest evidence that's come out

around these missing bolts basically

conclude uh that someone let's call it

at stage C of the production process

noticed missing bolts but the bolts were

the remaining piece of getting that

plane moved from let's say production

stage C to D and so the entire assembly

line has to pause and wait for those

bolts to show up which means all the

other planes in the line behind slow

down slowing down production slowing

down potential profit at boing which is

already a money losing

company that's a problem so what do they

do well what they generally do is

they'll say all right we're going to

move the plane to the next phase anyway

and then we'll come back and fix the

problem this is called traveled work

this is a phenomenon where basically

okay we need to go back and put the

bolts in work travels to the next stage

of production the issue is if somebody

doesn't document the issue and actually

cohesively connect the different stages

of production the people at stage D

might put panels on and go cool we're

doing our part never know that there was

an issue from stage C and if the ca

folks don't properly communicate it what

happens well you end up with a plane

that's got big old defects to the point

where door plugs just go flying out

midair now that's a really big problem

and it's a sign that maybe Boeing is

much more interested in getting planes

off the line than actually getting

quality out the door this is what we

just heard John Barnett allude to he

actually made it pretty clear that

Boeing believes that quality is just a

form of overhead in other words another

way of saying there's more cost so what

can we do to just get more planes out

the door rather than worrying about

quality but that's a problem when it

comes to air travel because you're

playing with people's lives for dollars

and that's wrong now Boeing has been

trying to address this and they've since

announced that 60% of worker bonuses

will be based on reducing traveled work

and this is where I think Toyota has a

very interesting example of how they

kind of solve and prevent these sort of

quality issues and when people think

about Toyota they usually think high

quality Vehicles so how can Toyota

manufacture so well when American

manufacturing L Boeing can fail so

miserably well Toyota had this principle

called the andon cord and it was

basically something that was popularized

in Japanese uh popularized in Japanese

manufacturing where somebody could

essentially pull on a cord shut down the

entire production line a supervisor

would come and go hey what's wrong we're

going to make sure your issue gets

solved and somebody else like a

supervisor is actually able to take

responsibility for the issue and the

entire team sort of works to try to

solve that problem as soon as possible

to get the rest of the line moving again

and rather than making somebody feel bad

for stalling production they actually

encourage it and everybody works

together to solve the issue whereas in

sort of the more American Manufacturing

Systems you have much more oh come on

why are you stalling the production line

move it along let's go we'll fix it

later and this fix it later mentality

has actually left a lot of boings

sitting out on Torx in What's called the

flight line This is essentially a

parking lot where planes go waiting to

get delivered they take off and they go

deliver them somewhere they make their

delivery flight but how are you supposed

to fix a plane outside in the flight

line when all the ladders and the tools

and the ergonomic workstations are

located inside the facilities well this

is where often times things either get

missed or they get done poorly and

that's a big problem all of my citations

by the way for this are all over at

eac.edu in Boeing's manufacture

facturing process controls Parts

handling and storage and some of the

examples they found were Hotel key cards

being used to check door seals no

manufacturer specifications or

installation specifications suggesting

you're supposed to use door key cards to

check seal fits and Dawn dish soap

apparently being used to lubricate a

dual a door seal during installation

weird and then when Boeing was

testifying before Congress people were

asked hey or Boeing was asked do you

have camera footage of who was working

on these door plugs who was there oh no

sorry those cameras were set to Auto

delete this is like a a culture of a

disaster here where it's like H move it

along we're a money losing company we

got to appease the shareholders we got

to go make money we got to get our

bonuses got to get our BuyBacks going

for the stock and what do you end up

with junky stuff like soap and hotel

cards being used in installation

processes a lot of traveled work nobody

going back to fix the traveled work in

fact it's so bad that when this Boeing

737 Max 9 had its door plug blown off

Alaska Airlines went back and looked at

their logs and they were actually

getting warnings on these on this

particular plane they actually

specifically grounded the plane to uh

essentially one part of the United

States where it would just conduct

shorter flights rather than Long Hall

flights and would stay above land

because they were already getting

warnings that something was wrong with

the plane and they needed to go in for

detailed inspections I guess some

passengers complaining about whistling

noises which could have been an

indication about the pressure issue from

the first from the GetGo weren't enough

you know Arc clearly people like were

designed not to sit by that door plug

which is the sad thing that kind of

suggests Alaska knew about this Boeing

problem but somehow either via Boeing or

because of Alaska's failure decided to

fly anyway Brett I remember interviewing

him and Brett from Arkin vest he's like

you know there's like a one in 400

chance that no one would be sitting next

to that door plug that blew off somebody

knew that there was a problem with this

plane and sure enough there was but

apparently we have this Aviation culture

in America at least thanks to Boeing and

and apparently that might extend over to

uh spirit Aeros systems which has had

some issues and maybe even Alaska

Airlines apparently it's okay to just

keep floating around with some of these

known issues going around in fact just

weeks before the 737 Max incident the uh

specific plane that had its door plug

blow off spent nearly 3 weeks quote

shuffling down an assembly line with

faulty rivets in need of repair oops and

so now you've got this John Barnett guy

who's testifying in a federal

whistleblower lawsuit uh there are

specific whistleblower procedures with

the FAA if you're an employee and you

have insight into Aviation safety sa and

so he's testifying in a deposition he's

in the midst of his deposition staying

at this holiday and hotel and he's

citing that he while working at Boeing

had uncovered serious problems with

oxygen systems where maybe only one in

four uh or rather I should say where

only three and four breathing masks

would actually work in other words one

in four so 25% of people might end up

holding down breathing masks that

wouldn't actually work in an emergency

that's disgusting uh and uh Barnett

suggests that said it's not the 737 that

was the only problem but it's also the

787 Dreamliner which is a long haul

flight uh Base plane or styled plane and

he called both of these ticking time

bombs scary really bad so obviously you

heard it from him himself and then this

idea that he could just end up dead

doesn't actually prevent more suspicion

here if anything it just creates more

suspicion over boeings I remember back

uh flying with uh flying on a 737 Max

and I asked one of the stewardesses

about it this was probably this was

preco I asked hey you know don't you

ever get people who are nervous about

flying on the Max And she said Oh all

the time we actually take the little

safety briefing card and we turn it

around so it doesn't really clearly at

the top left say 737 Max so they turn

The Branding around because the

reputation is so bad that was all back

when they had the Ethiopian air uh

crashes for the uh uh stabilizer

controls where uh Pilots were M trained

as we talked about at the beginning of

the video for a new system that they

added in the 737 Max you had to kind of

like rotate some some wheel or whatever

to overtake the system in the event of a

failure and two substantially deadly

accidents a lot of nasty problems

related to Boeing yet despite all of

these nasty problems related to Boeing

what's remarkable is this t has still

managed to outperform Boeing year-to dat

in its

underperformance rip uh in Boeing's

earnings call they basically Express

that they're confident in their recovery

and then when you look at their actual

income they have narrowed their

operating loss loss from operations here

at$

773 million in 2023 but we uh we expect

now with these early 2024 issues we

might end up having even more losses at

this particular company so quite scary

to see what's going on in the world of

Aviation and I'm really sussed out that

you could whistleblow a company in

America and just like the Spy movies

just end up dead I thought that was for

the

movies yikes