In the past few days, some spiritual Americans in China are probably going to be disappointed! The White House, the Pentagon, Boeing ......The "totems" of these "beautiful people" are collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The United States has a bad start to the year, the Epstein case is flooding, the defense chief has entered the ICU and is diagnosed with cancer, and the Boeing plane has an accident again! On the evening of January 5, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport because the Boeing 737-9MAX, which had just left the factory for two months, fell off the door while flying at high altitude.
This door is an emergency hatch, the kind of escape door that should be firmly sealed, and theoretically it will not fall off on its own, but this small probability event still happened. Fortunately, the plane made an emergency landing, and it was a blessing that there were no personnel! The next day, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States issued an emergency order to ground all 171 737-max 9 aircraft in the United States, which is an extremely rare thing in the history of civil aviation flights. The cause of the incident was found, and it turned out to be a loose bolt, and it was unbelievable that such a low-level mistake appeared on an aircraft that cost tens of millions of dollars. Boeing's top brass also came out in a rare way to admit mistakes, but it did not touch the essence of the problem. It's another Boeing plane, and in people's minds, in recent years, there have been countless Boeing crashes. ** is a damaged aircraft engine located in a field in Ethiopia, Africa, as part of the wreckage of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
The flight crashed on March 10, 2019, killing 157 people. Just a few months ago, another Lion Air Flight 610 crashed in Indonesia, killing 189 people. The two flights used the same type of aircraft, the Boeing 737- MAX 8, which is very familiar, the same model with the front door falling off. Not only the Boeing 737, but the number of air crashes in the past decade has been much higher than that of Airbus. According to statistics, there have been 29 air crashes with more than 50 people in the past decade, of which 11 were Boeing, and Airbus was more than half, only five. There have been 82 accidents of this magnitude in the past 20 years, 32 of which were Boeing, which is not only explained by technical problems. What exactly is wrong with the Boeing plane? Rong Ping believes that this is actually a systemic problem caused by commercial competition and the supremacy of capital interests. In other words, Boeing is not simply a problem at the technical level, but a problem with the entire production environment and system, or soil. For example, the bolts of the Boeing plane were loosened, and the air crash caused by other problems was rooted in the systematic loopholes in Boeing's management, which actually pointed to the same problem. Just like the chaos in the United States today, and the frequent accidents of Boeing planes, the reasons are actually the same source. Problem 1: Blindly competing with Airbus to reduce costs, changing engine positions, but not training pilots, resulting in conflicts between patching systems and personnel operations, and soaring risk factors. When it comes to air crashes, starting with the engine is the key to understanding why the plane breaks down frequently, but there is nothing wrong with the Boeing engine, but the system is self-contradictory caused by the change of engine position. Why did Boeing change the engine position? Because Airbus announced in 2010 that it had updated its most popular model, the A320, with a new engine that was much larger than the previous one and 15 percent more fuel efficient. And this upgrade will not change much of the aircraft, and pilots will need very little training to get started with the new model, which is called the A320 -NEO, which is expected to save Airbus a lot of costs.
In the face of Airbus' attack, Boeing chose the same approach as Airbus: upgrading the engines on the single-aisle 737. But a tricky problem arose: the 737's belly was closer to the ground than the A320's, which meant that Airbus could fit new, larger engines under the A320's wing, but the Boeing 737 didn't have enough space under the wing. So Boeing researchers came up with a "genius" approach: move the engines on the wings up to fit the structure of the 737, and the 737-MAX came into play. Just like Airbus' A320, Boeing says their new aircraft is very similar to its predecessor, with pilots needing only a little training to get their hands on the 737-MAX. As a result, the Boeing 737-MAX became the best-selling aircraft on the market. However, moving the 737's engine up will produce *** When the 737-max climbs at full thrust, the nose tends to go up too much, which may cause a stall in severe cases. This is a serious problem, because the new aircraft should behave exactly the same in terms of flight attitude as the previous aircraft, so Boeing came up with a complementary approach: instead of redesigning the aircraft, they created a program that automatically pushes the nose down if the pilot flies the plane at too high an angle, which they call the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). Since Boeing believes that the 737-MAX they sell is almost the same aircraft as the old model, they did not emphasize the new MCAS system. Many pilots only took a two-hour online training session before entering the cockpit for the first time, and the training materials did not mention the new system, so disaster finally struck. In 2018, several American pilots complained about the 737-max having a sudden bow, but this was not taken seriously. On October 29, 2018, the aforementioned Lion Air Flight 610 took off from Jakarta. The flight report shows the altitude of the aircraft over time, and according to the pattern, the aircraft can be seen to be at full thrust during takeoff, but at some point the nose keeps tilting downward, and the pilot has no control over the altitude of the aircraft and does not understand why this happens. The captain asked the co-pilot to check the quick reference manual, but they didn't find a solution in it. The pilots then continued to fight an enemy they did not know about: MCAS, in an effort to raise the plane to height. According to the report, it may have been because the computer obtained the wrong sensor data, pushing the plane to the ground. Eventually, 12 minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed. Similarly, reports of the Ethiopian crash showed that pilots were actually able to disable the MCAS system, but they were unaware of its existence at the time.
The essence of these air crashes is that in order to catch up with the progress of Airbus, Boeing excessively pursues cost reduction and cost performance, ignores the most important safety of the aircraft, and puts the untested things directly into the market. Problem 2: After the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, the engineer culture gave way to the supremacy of capital interests and introduced immature technology to the market, and the lack of a rigorous corporate culture was the root cause of Boeing's frequent aircraft problems. Boeing's problems don't happen overnight. The bane can be traced back to 1997, when Boeing finally merged with its old rival McDonnell Douglas to become a giant in the aviation industry, leaving Europe's Airbus behind, but it was this merger that planted the seeds of future chaos. Boeing's original engineer culture was to seek truth from facts, and after the merger, McDonnell Douglas's culture of "everything is in line with profits" was transmitted to Boeing. Engineer culture is simply to work the product, right is right, wrong is wrong, respect the objective law of things, do not do nonsense, unfortunately Boeing chose another path. After the merger, Boeing's focus has changed from production and manufacturing to operation and sales, and the company's top management revolves around the interests of shareholders, thinking every day about how to push up the stock price, how to do financial accounting better, and how to tell stories to Wall Street, which is a pure businessman. Then the logic of the businessman is very clear, that is, how to make money and how to come. But in the market, behind these high-level drinking carnivals, there is the company's internal money grabbing, in order to reduce costs and cut R&D and production funds.
As a result, Boeing's 27,000 mechanics went on strike, causing production delays, and the board of directors was furious and decided to relocate the factory to a place where labor was cheaper. Charleston, South Carolina, became the new site. As a result, there are no skilled workers here, let alone senior engineers. The most excessive thing is that the people here are more individual, and often go to work to "taste and enjoy" contraband, such as painkillers containing cocaine, and for example, the leaves that are legal in the United States, and the ** in the factory is said to be of better quality than outside. Think about it, can these people build airplanes? The headquarters sent a quality inspector and said yes! Because they don't live locally, they can't see the manufacturing process, and they can only accept the final finished product. It looks almost ticked, anyway, the pipelines and internal assembly inside can't be seen, and it just goes through the quality inspection directly. In Rong Ping's view, Boeing's problem is not actually the problem of an American high-end manufacturing company, but the external manifestation of the lack of the entire American industrial culture, and the internal logic is also consistent with the chaos in the United States today. Boeing's lying flat is actually a foreshadowing. It's not a lack of progress on the part of a company, it's a recession in the entire U.S. manufacturing industry. With the deepening of globalization, almost all large American companies will outsource their industrial chains to China, Southeast Asia and other places to reduce costs through cheap labor, and Boeing is not the first to do this, and it can even be said that it started very late. The hollowing out of the manufacturing industry has led to the continuous erosion of the culture of industrial rejuvenation in the United States, and relying on the status of the dollar as the world currency to engage in financial calculations and harvesting games, the huge empire of the United States is already on the verge of collapse, and it is in danger! Let's think about it again, how can those American politicians who spend all day on Lori Island working hard to govern the beacon country that they are proud of?
The United States, even the Minister of Defense, the number one person in the military, has such a big physical problem, and is also admitted to the ICU, and can hide from the world, so that even the staff around him does not know, and the **vice**Congress** does not know anything, which shows that the United States ** is really mediocre to the point of shock. The collapse of Boeing is not the problem of a single American enterprise, but the unstoppable trend in the operation of the entire state apparatus, that is, the twilight of the empire and its visible decline!