It's all Boeing that has had accidents recently, and Boeing is really no longer the Boeing that everyone used to know. In the past, Boeing was an engineer's Boeing, and now Boeing is an MBA (capitalist's Boeing), which is not interested in anything but making money, which is dangerous. Boeing's start to the new year has been quite unfavorable, and Boeing has had three accidents this month.
The first time the 737MAX door fell, the United States completely grounded the 737MAX, but the 737MAX itself is not designed to work, and it has fallen several times, so this is understandable.
The second collision between two Japanese Boeing planes can also be said to be the incompetence of the personnel of the Japanese airport control tower and the outdated equipment.
The third time, which is the time we are talking about today, US Secretary of State Blinken's 737 car has a serious failure, which is undoubtedly a slap in the face in front of the world. Here's what happened: The glitch occurred when Blinken flew back to Washington from Switzerland after attending the Davos summit.
Faulty plane, again Boeing 737 MAX. After attending the meeting in Davos, Blinken flew to Zurich by helicopter, and then in Zurich, boarded the modified plane, and the key thing is that before boarding, he had been told that the plane was a safety hazard, and the previously detected oxygen leakage problem had not been resolved.
But Blinken boarded the plane anyway, mainly because the plane had been thoroughly modified and qualified, and the Blinken team made the decision after weighing it.
Unexpectedly, just after taking off, there was a serious malfunction, oxygen leaked, emergency landing, and then wanted to go back to Washington, so you had to change planes.
This oxygen leak problem can be said to be very problematic because it involves the isolated internal air system that is unique to U.S. government planes. This system was originally designed to protect against biochemical attacks, but in the event of a leak, it can lead to a lack of oxygen supply in the cabin.
If the leak cannot be addressed, the plane may experience a lack of oxygen during the flight, causing Blinken to die on top of the plane. Therefore, this is a very serious failure.
However, the air system has almost no wear parts, and the failure rate is inherently low. Even if there is a problem, it is not a difficult fault to solve. However, the result was so serious that Blinken needed to replace the plane, which suggests that the problem was either a quality problem or a design problem.
The reason why Blinken was asked to replace the plane was because it could not be repaired for the time being. And this is still the special plane of the Secretary of State, and the fault point must be in an inaccessible area, which can only be repaired by returning to the factory for large-scale disassembly. The entire repair cost can reach tens of millions.
It can be said that Boeing's highest quality is not much better, and civil aircraft are even worse to slag. This time Boeing is a sign that a large-scale collapse is coming. It seems that the problem is easier to be concerned, and small problems are easy to be magnified, it seems that the manufacturing industry is returning to the United States, it seems that it is just a false proposition that depends on the peers, our C919 is becoming more and more stable, and now C919 in addition to our domestic orders are gradually rising, overseas orders have also begun to increase. Next, orders will definitely continue to rise sharply.
It has also proved that the U.S. strategy of retaining only high-end manufacturing has completely failed. The loss of a large number of low-end manufacturing industries will eventually affect the level of high-end manufacturing. The problem with the Boeing aircraft door is not just an isolated incident. It can be said that it may be accidental that Boeing has had so many problems in succession recently, but the quality problems of Boeing aircraft are an inevitable result. Since the neoliberal revolution, the U.S. industry has been heavily hollowed out, there is a shortage of skilled workers, R&D and manufacturing efforts are less and less important to companies than speculative speculation on the stock market, and long-term development has increasingly been replaced by short-term incentives from CEOs.
Regardless of position, Boeing was once a great company, but now it doesn't know how far it has fallen. At the same time, let's not forget that Boeing is the main producer of the US Air Force, and even an accident with a civilian airliner will raise doubts about the US war capabilities in the world. Great empires never fell because of external threats, but because of internal corruption.
This is also the impact of the deindustrialization of the United States, and many people's perception of the United States and the American military is still stuck in the 20 years ago that it fought Afghanistan, has 11 aircraft carriers and invincible F22 fighters.
As everyone knows, there is currently only one shipyard in the United States, which has 11 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and 1 Ford-class aircraft carrier. However, only 6 aircraft carriers are currently in serviceable condition, the others need to be repaired or have reached the end of their design life. In addition, the United States has 96 Burke-class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers, but the number capable of performing combat missions does not exceed 40. In comparison, we have a much larger number of Type 055 and Type 052D destroyers.
At present, due to the degradation of industrial capacity, the United States has contracted the maintenance of aircraft carriers to India, which has no aircraft carrier and large ship manufacturing capacity, and Boeing's largest parts supplier is the Indian company, and the software program is also Indian, that is, the cause of the previous two 737 crashes was a software program problem, and Ah San is responsible for contracting the current Boeing company.
The avalanche came very quickly, and it probably wouldn't take five years for everyone to suddenly find out overnight how the lighthouse had fallen.