Decline of Functioning Society

[Nordwand]

No problem. Here's a video about flying in the 1960s. It's pretty obvious why it was so much better than now. At 7 minutes into the video, try not to chuckle at the woke racial lecturing section. It is not difficult to see why the flying experience, like everything else in the U.S., started to slowly go downhill. For those who can't imagine what they're seeing in the video to be real, it is an accurate depiction of how things used to be in America.




PS - the narrator comment about hijackings in the 1970s is also true. There were a crapload, it was really exciting. Usually, no one got hurt with a few exceptions. They generally took place outside the U.S.

You've made me all nostalgic:

Lufthansa Flight 181 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I doubt if the current Germany would give such a robust response.

 

[Caduceus]

PS - the narrator comment about hijackings in the 1970s is also true. There were a crapload, it was really exciting. Usually, no one got hurt with a few exceptions. They generally took place outside the U.S.

President Nixon ordered all US airports to have metal detectors before boarding in the early 1970s after all the hijackings.
Before then you could just walk onto a plane with your luggage, with no one looking inside.
Side note....those 1970s terrorists were probably funded and trained by a combinations of US/Isareli or Soviet intelligence agencies.
They were not "organic".

 

[It_Is_My_Time]

Boeing's response...

 

[GuitarVH]

 

[budoslavic]

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I can explain Boeing quickly. It attained a market dominant position in the USA following the merger with McDonnell Douglas. This made it lazy. It then got new management, which emphasized financial chicanery over top flight engineering, symbolized in its move of its corporate HQ from Seattle to Chicago. The financial geniuses then worked to break the union, shift production away from its trained Seattle work force to places like South Carolina, and outsource production of most plane components abroad - the American work force was left to assemble all these disparate parts rather than produce them here. Software was also outsourced. The end result was lower quality of aircraft, delays in development and production, and even fatalities from crashes. But rest assured the management in Chicago did very well.

Meanwhile, by focusing on MBAs and JDs rather than engineers, top management fell victim to all the pathologies coming out of top schools. This is where the DEI nonsense comes from, which would have been much harder to impose if management were more focused on building good planes than stock buybacks. So the outsourcing, cost cutting, diminishing the original work force - all this is now working in tandem with the sort of diversity/DEI dysfunction visible all over corporate America. It’s a feedback loop that could be fatal to Boeing, and has already been fatal to someone airline passengers.

This is basically it. It’s not an elaborate conspiracy. It’s a tale of greed and dysfunction that you can see all over America.

 

[budoslavic]

Federal investigators say Boeing doesn’t know who worked on Alaska Airlines door​

The National Transportation Safety Board says Boeing has not been able to produce documents showing which employees worked on the door plug that blew out midair on an Alaska Airlines flight.

Federal accident investigators still don’t know which employees worked on the door plug that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight in January — because manufacturer Boeing didn’t keep track of the work, investigators said.

The independent National Transportation Safety Board said it has repeatedly asked Boeing for the names of people who worked on the door plug, including during a public hearing before Congress last week. NTSB leader Jennifer Homendy said Wednesday that Boeing had finally answered — but that her agency was no closer to getting the information.

“Boeing has informed us that they are unable to find the records documenting this work,” Homendy said in the letter addressed to Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who had insisted at the hearing that Boeing respond within a week. She added that Boeing CEO David Calhoun told her that the company “has no records of the work being performed.”

Boeing declined to address Homendy’s specific assertions, instead providing a statement saying it will continue to support the NTSB’s investigation “in the transparent and proactive fashion we have supported all regulatory inquiries into this accident.”

It’s another potential embarrassment for America’s premier plane manufacturer, which is again facing a series of probes and a Justice Department investigation, all of which are spooking its airline customers. Much of the scrutiny focused on Boeing and its 737 MAX fuselage contractor, Spirit AeroSystems, involves allegations of poor quality control.

Boeing first gave NTSB names of individuals in February, but only those who Boeing felt “may provide insight” regarding the work, she said. Then, Homendy said that on March 6, Boeing gave her agency a list of all personnel working on the 737 MAX line at Boeing’s facility in Renton, Washington, but had not identified who specifically worked on the door plug despite repeated requests.

“After NTSB received this list, I called [Calhoun] and asked for the names of the people who performed the work. He stated he was unable to provide that information and maintained that Boeing has no records of the work being performed,” Homendy wrote.

Homendy said that in addition, security camera footage that would have helped answer the question had been “overwritten.” A Boeing spokesperson said the company follows “standard practice” of overwriting footage on a 30-day rolling basis.

TSB additionally sent a letter to Boeing on Wednesday scolding the aerospace company for potentially disclosing information about the board’s ongoing investigation, which if true would breach the agreement Boeing signed allowing NTSB to be the sole public voice about the investigation.

“Before the NTSB’s adoption of the final report regarding this accident, only appropriate NTSB personnel are authorized to publicly disclose investigative information and, even then, the disclosure is limited to factual information verified during the course of the investigation,” wrote NTSB Director of Aviation Safety Tim LeBaron, who noted that the prohibition also extends to off-the-record statements.

Responding to LeBaron’s letter, Boeing said it has “worked hard to honor the rules” and will continue to do so when releasing investigative information, which has “intense interest from our employees, customers, and other stakeholders.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/13/boeing-ntsb-airlines-safety-00146782

Boeing has not handed over key documents in Alaska Airlines door plug probe: NTSB chair​

Jennifer Homendy said they have requested certain documents "numerous times."

Boeing has not fully cooperated with the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the Alaska Airlines door plug incident, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

"Boeing has not provided us with the documents and information that we have requested numerous times over the past few months, specifically with respect to opening, closing and removal of the door and the team that does work at the Renton facility,” Homendy said during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing.

Homendy said a team of 25 people at a company facility in Renton, Washington, deals with the doors. She said the manager of the team has been on medical leave, and the NTSB have not been able to interview the manager. Despite asking for the names of the 25 people on the team, Boeing has refused to give that information to the NTSB, Homendy said.

"It's absurd that two months later, we don't have that," Homendy said and noted that the NTSB has engaged their attorney on this matter.

Boeing said in a statement to ABC News that the company has "worked proactively and transparently" to support the NTSB's investigation, including by responding "comprehensively" to all agency requests with relevant information.

"Early in the investigation, we provided the NTSB with names of Boeing employees, including door specialists, who we believed would have relevant information. We have now provided the full list of individuals on the 737 door team, in response to a recent request," the statement said. "With respect to documentation, if the door plug removal was undocumented there would be no documentation to share."

"We will continue to cooperate fully and transparently with the NTSB’s investigation," the company said.

Boeing has not handed over key documents in Alaska Airlines door plug probe: NTSB chair

Boeing has not fully cooperated with the National Transportation Safety Board's probe into the Alaska Airlines door plug incident, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said.

abcnews.go.com

Boeing promises changes after getting poor grades in a government audit of manufacturing quality​

Boeing received bad grades in a government audit of manufacturing quality, and the company says it's making changes to address the situation

Responding to a U.S. government audit, Boeing said Tuesday that it would work with employees found to have violated company manufacturing procedures to make sure they understand instructions for their jobs.

The aircraft maker detailed its latest steps to correct lapses in quality in a memo to employees from Stan Deal, president of Boeing's commercial plane division.

The memo went out after the Federal Aviation Administration finished a six-week review of the company's manufacturing processes for the 737 Max jetliner after a panel blew off one of the planes during an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5.

The FAA reviewed 89 aspects of production at Boeing's plant in Renton, Washington, and found the company failed 33 of them, according to a person familiar with the report. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that have not been publicly released – although they were reported earlier by The New York Times, which saw a slide presentation on the government's audit.

“The vast majority” of violations found by the FAA involved workers not following Boeing’s approved procedures, Deal said in his memo.

Deal said the company will take remedial steps that include “working with each employee noted with a non-compliance during the audit to ensure they fully understand the work instructions and procedures.”

Boeing will also add weekly compliance checks for all work teams in the Renton factory, where Max jets are assembled, he said.

Deal acknowledged a recent conclusion by a panel of government and industry experts that found Boeing’s procedures for ensuring safety were too complicated and changed too often.

“Our teams are working to simplify and streamline our processes and address the panel’s recommendations,” he told staff.

Boeing promises changes after getting poor grades in a government audit of manufacturing quality

Boeing received bad grades in a government audit of manufacturing quality, and the company says it's making changes to address the situation

abcnews.go.com

 

[GuitarVH]

 

[dgbrown]

Even most Caucasian liberals seem to understand this, which is why middle-class, left-of-center liberal men seem to avoid simping for African-American women, especially ones with children.

Problem is, they have no such qualms about simping for (single mother) Caucasian women and, to a lesser extent, Asian and Latina ones.

The latter scenario may be a slower burn but therein lies the danger - these men get their souls sapped without even realizing it, even if they should.

 

[Sabonis73]

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was planning to drive home to Louisiana after his deposition on Friday 3/8 before Boeing lawyers asked him to stay one more day to finish his testimony.

His body was found on the morning of 3/9.

Barnett was planning to start driving from SC to LA after completing his testimony on Friday 3/8, but that night the Boeing lawyers asked him to stay for one more day of depositions on Saturday 3/9.

Something happened overnight at his hotel, and he was found dead that morning.

Barnett's detailed testimony and ability to recall specific dates without referring to documents had flustered the Boeing lawyers to the point that they tried to protest against it.

Meanwhile, Barnett's own lawyer found himself thinking "This is the best witness I've ever seen."

Barnett's lawyer described him as "really happy to be telling his side of the story" hours before his death.

Barnett told family/friends "If I die, it's not suicide."

Charleston Police say the gunshot that killed him "appears to be self-inflicted" and they're "investigating."

So after a day of passionate and detailed testimony, Boeing's lawyers requested that John Barnett stay in South Carolina for an extra night to answer more questions the next day.

John Barnett did not live through that extra night.

 

[budoslavic]

 

[GuitarVH]

 

[Australia Sucks]

The system is so corrupt and clown world now that large corporations are outright assassinating people (as opposed to the usual slowly killing them by selling them poisonous foods or vaccines, etc) and nobody is batting an eyelid. Twenty years ago journalists would have been all over it and it would have been considered a massive scandal.


Barnett told family/friends "If I die, it's not suicide."
Charleston Police say the gunshot that killed him "appears to be self-inflicted" and they're "investigating."

Literally if somebody dies shortly after telling people "if I die its not suicide" it means he had suspicion that people were gunning for him and its obvious he did not kill himself. The fact that police are trying to say its self inflicted shows how corrupt and bought and paid for the police are. That's why I never feel bad when police get murdered by criminals. Most police are criminals as far I am concerned. Police are not there to protect citizens. They are absolutely useless at stopping people from getting murdered or robbed, but if you protest against COVID (e.g. Canadian truckers) or against political corruption/election rigging (January 6th) expect the full force of the law to come down on you. I never understood why so many "conservatives" (or should I say cuckservatives) are pro police. That is like prisoners being pro prison wardens. We are the prisoners and the police are the prison wardens. I hate police so much they are absolute vermin.

 

[It_Is_My_Time]

 

[GuitarVH]

 

[Laner]

I am willing to bet that some of this comes at the hands of corporate espionage and sabotage. China has now stolen enough US jet tech to make rivals of most of Boeing's fleet. And just the same as all the DEI hiring policy made it easy to get CCP actors inside Boeing, they are now using that same policy to ensure the hiring of people and contractors who will screw up just by way of ignorance and laziness.

 

[GuitarVH]

 

[budoslavic]

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JUST IN: A suicide note was allegedly found next to Boeing whistleblower John Barnett who was found dead in his truck with a gun in his hand

A hotel staff member found Barnett after someone contacted the hotel for a wellness check on him.

Barnett had his "right pointer finger remaining on the trigger" with a "gunshot wound near his right temple," according to the police report.

A "white piece of paper that closely resembled a note" was on the passenger seat next to him. The contents of the note have not been released.

Barnett's lawyers say there was "no indication" Barnett would take his life.

"John was in the midst of a deposition in his whistleblower retaliation case, which finally was nearing the end. He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn't see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it."

"We are all devastated. We need more information about what happened to John. The Charleston police need to investigate this fully and accurately and tell the public what they find out. No detail can be left unturned."

Weird.
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He was 100% murdered.

"John was in the midst of a deposition in his whistleblower retaliation case, which finally was nearing the end. He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn't see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it."

 

[JR5]

The below post is about the accelerating nature of time and the increasing “solidification” of the world where reality becomes more material and less spiritual at an ever-increasing rate, seen through the work of Rene Guenon and Ernst Junger. Basically, the expectation is that the decline of functioning society will continue to get worse and that we should focus on our spiritual growth to shield against the worst of it.

https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/technology-as-the-accelerator-of

 

[fokm]

Amazing exchange and gets to the heart of fixing one of the big problems if we have the balls to do it:

 

[TruckDriver9]

I am willing to bet that some of this comes at the hands of corporate espionage and sabotage. China has now stolen enough US jet tech to make rivals of most of Boeing's fleet. And just the same as all the DEI hiring policy made it easy to get CCP actors inside Boeing, they are now using that same policy to ensure the hiring of people and contractors who will screw up just by way of ignorance and laziness.

Can't really blame China for our own stupidity - it's not like the CCP is responsible for all the diversity madness in our society. Sure, they definitely take advantage of Boeing's situation - whether it be corporate espionage or poaching the last few valuable workers, but not sabotage. Their own airlines have a lot od Boeing aircraft and I don't think they would toy with their own safety.