On May 9, a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane of Turkey's Crayton Airlines suddenly had a flat tire while landing.
Fortunately, the passenger plane finally succeeded in making a forced landing, and the 190 people on board were evacuated urgently, and no one was injured.
But after all, the Boeing plane has an accident again!
Why so many "again"?
Because, in just two days, May 8 and May 9, Boeing planes actually had three accidents in succession!
Prior to the Crayton Aviation accident, Turkey and Senegal had already had an accident each, and the accident was also caused by a Boeing plane.
(Clayton Aviation's Boeing 737-800 has a flat tire)
Ironically, two days ago, the new whistleblower, Santiago Paredes, came out to expose the quality scandal of the Boeing plane, predicting that "sooner or later disaster will happen."
I didn't expect it to be a prophecy......
Looking back at Boeing's strange movements this year, everything seems to make sense again.
In early March, Boeing planes were involved in a number of accidents within a week, either with tires falling off, cabin fires, or running off the runway.
But it didn't take long for John Barnett, the whistleblower who broke the news about the quality problems of Boeing's planes, to die mysteriously.
(吹哨人John Barnett离奇死亡)
At that time, Barnet was about to appear in court in the case against Boeing, but suddenly died in his truck before the trial, which was preliminarily determined by the police to be a "suicide".
The incident caused an uproar on social media, and Barnet's friends claimed to the media that Barnet would never have committed suicide, and there must be something else hidden in the matter.
Unexpectedly, a wave was not settled, and a wave rose again.
Two weeks ago, the second whistleblower, Joshua Dean, who had worked as a quality inspector for Boeing's suppliers, also died in a mysterious way.
Dean, who had always been in good health, was inexplicably infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and then suffered a stroke.
It didn't take long for Dean's health to deteriorate rapidly, eventually dying...
(Dean mysteriously contracted and died)
The mysterious deaths of two whistleblowers one after another did not prevent more insiders from coming forward to break the news.
A few days ago, the new whistleblower, Santiago Paredes, bravely stepped forward again and continued to break the inside story of the quality of Boeing aircraft.
Paredes, a colleague of the dead whistleblower Dean, also worked for Boeing's parts supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, as a quality manager.
(新的吹哨人Santiago Paredes)
According to him, for many years, he was forced by his superiors to deliberately conceal the defects of the Boeing plane's fuselage.
He always felt that "disaster will happen sooner or later".
According to Parede, the quality of the aircraft he has witnessed is striking:
When inspecting the Boeing 737 airframe at the Spirit AeroSystems plant in Kansas, he and his colleagues found "50 to 100, or even 200," common defects every day.
These defects include: missing fasteners, bending and deformation of parts, or even missing parts...
(Spirit AeroSystems的工厂车间)
Parede has repeatedly reported this kind of problem to his superiors, but his superiors have prevaricated that "they need to deliver as soon as possible".
Not only did the superiors cover up the problem, but they also blamed Parede for documenting the plane's defects, which led to the delay in delivery, and was an out-and-out "troublemaker".
Parede lamented:
"They just want to sell their products, they don't care about the consequences of inferior aircraft, they only care about revenue targets, schedules and budgets...... They just want the numbers to look good, regardless of the quality of the body! ”
Unable to withstand the pressure from his superiors, Parede finally chose to resign and leave in 2022, but the quality of the aircraft has always worried Parede.
Seeing that this year, Boeing planes have had a series of accidents.
Parede couldn't bear to stand up and break the news, and he solemnly pointed out:
Boeing knew for years that the airframes delivered by Spirit AeroSystems were safety hazards, but they also chose to ignore them.
Parede also left a harsh sentence to a number of media outlets:
"This is a harbinger of disaster...... Sooner or later, disasters will happen. ”
(Santiago Paredes对媒体爆料)
Unexpectedly, as soon as Parede's words fell, the Boeing plane came with a wave of "feats" of three accidents in two days.
On May 8, a Boeing 767 freighter from FedEx took off from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and headed for Istanbul, Turkey.
In a situation where the nose landing gear could not be opened, the pilot had to make a forced landing directly on the Istanbul airport with the nose.
(Boeing 767 freighter crash landing in Turkey)
The scene was quite thrilling, with the nose of the Boeing 767 hitting the ground directly on the runway, even though the ground had been sprayed with fire extinguishing foam in advance to reduce friction before landing.
However, the sparks and black smoke from the collision between the nose and the ground were still clearly visible, but fortunately, there was no danger in the end, and the forced landing was successful.
(Boeing 767 finally made a successful forced landing)
In the early morning of May 9, a Boeing 737-300 passenger plane was flying to neighboring Mali at the capital airport of the African country of Senegal.
While the plane was taxiing on the runway in preparation, the crew discovered that the plane was leaking hydraulic fluid and immediately decided to interrupt the takeoff.
As a result, the Boeing airliner then rushed off the runway under the impetus of inertia, and the fuselage was severely damaged.
(Boeing 737-300 rushes off the runway)
An engine on one side of the plane then caught fire, and the passengers on board had to be evacuated via an emergency escape ladder, and eventually 85 people on board were rescued, 11 were injured, and 4 were seriously injured.
(Aircraft fire)
After the Senegalese passenger plane crashed, many media reports on it had not had time to be released, and there was another plane accident on the Turkish side, this time it was Boeing!
At noon on May 9, a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane of Clayton Airlines in Turkey took off from Cologne, Germany, and landed at Gazipasa Airport in Antalya, Turkey, when the nose landing gear tire suddenly burst.
(Landing gear tire puncture)
Fortunately, all 184 passengers and six crew members on board were evacuated safely with no casualties.
(Boeing 737-800 flat tire)
The two whistleblowers died mysteriously one after another, and as soon as the third whistleblower predicted that the Boeing plane would "have an accident sooner or later," the Boeing plane immediately came to Poland to "fulfill" the three accidents in two days......
It is not so much that the whistleblower predicted accurately, but that the quality of the plane was like this, and it caught up with it casually.....
This time, it is difficult for Boeing not to think of hot searches.
Although the investigation reports of these three accidents have not yet been released, it is too early to determine that the quality of the Boeing aircraft is a problem in the first place.
But at this juncture, the whistleblower has had accidents one after another, and the planes have also had accidents one after another, and it is difficult not to think of Boeing's quality problems.
At the end of the day, the problem can only be solved by facing it head-on, rather than covering up the mistakes of another with one mistake......