The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) published the memo shortly before a hearing involving the FAA.
Well yeah, ever since Douglas took over Boeing’s leadership the focus has been on share value.
If that is the only thing that matters, then quality don’t matter.
It is also insane that the FAA gave Boeing permission to do their own inspections, that is such an obvious conflict of interest.
The only good thing that came out of all of this is that FAA reputation is now in the gutter. And other aviation authorities around the world are now getting more involved in doing their own evaluations, instead of mostly relying on FAA for Boeing planes specifically. It does increase the development timeline of new places significantly, as Boeing is a US company and that create a lot of logistical issues for inspections.
