Maxor

I am mixed on this one, The airplane was not built to specifications and caused a service memeber to be badly injured and an airplane lost thats very bad. It wasn't a signle isolated incident which is even worse. I'm not seeing boeing offering a squadron of new f-15's to make up for the bad one's and he has pretty much been crippled in that he has been unable to resume both his military and civilian flying duties. I don't like him indepenandtly suing boeing but I'm not sure what other recourse he has.

149 out of just under 450 not meeting specs isn't isolated its really really bad quality control. A structural part not being right when I have been seriously punished or fined because I was short 2 turns on one of 2 securing peices of wire on a locked cannon plug inside of a enclosed bay non-functional to the direct flying of an aircraft because something might happen. (also cost the company I worked for a little bit extra money either 2500 or 5000) I forget due to certain numbers of safety violations in our contract even though there were lots of identical cannonplugs elsewhere on the plane that had no safetywire. I'm amazed that the AF isn't going out of their way to get alot of cash back from boeing on this especially considering the way they are fairly finaincially strapped at the moment.