In an interview with the Financial Times published Sunday, Clark said he had seen a “progressive decline” in Boeing’s standards, which he put down to long-running management and governance missteps, including prioritizing profit over engineering excellence.

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“A flight attendant was closing the front door. I said, ‘I wasn’t supposed to fly the Max.’ She was like, ‘What do you know about the Max?,’” he said.

“I said, ‘I can’t go into detail right now, but I wasn’t planning on flying the Max, and I want to get off the plane.’”

‘I want to get off the plane.’ The passengers refusing to fly on Boeing’s 737 Max

Barnett said he found discarded metal shavings near wiring for the flight controls. He said it could have been “catastrophic” if the sharp pieces had pierced the wiring. He said after he complained to superiors, they moved him to another part of the plant.

Former Boeing manager who raised safety concerns found dead

What happened? Merger with McDonnell Douglas?

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Seems like similar type things happened at NASA as seem to be happening at Boeing. Instead of engineers and technical experts making final decision, administrative types are given that role.
The "private equity" management model.

Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: Major Malfunction | Retro Report | The New York Times

Capt. ‘Sully’ on Boeing’s aviation safety: ‘They have lost their way’

“I have serious concerns about the safety of the 787 and 777 aircraft and I’m willing to take on professional risk to talk about them,” he said in his opening statement. He said when he raised concerns, “I was ignored. I was told not to create delays. I was told, frankly, to shut up.”

Boeing whistleblower: ‘They are putting out defective airplanes'

The complaint and a press release issued Tuesday by the union describe how the two workers “insisted the company reevaluate prior engineering work on the 777 and 787 to account for a new FAA advisory” in 2022.

Labor complaint reveals allegations of Boeing retaliation against two workers

Dean is the second Boeing-related whistleblower to die in the past three months.

Whistleblower Joshua Dean, who raised concerns about Boeing jets, dies at 45

Boeing (BA), despite its many woes, has a backlog of orders for more 5,600 commercial jets, worth $529 billion. That’s years’ worth of orders. The problem is that Boeing has reduced its pace so much to address quality issues, it can’t make enough planes a year to turn a profit.

“Can the current situation go on forever? No, it can’t,” said Ron Epstein, aerospace analyst for Bank of America. “That being said, they have some leeway. They’re not going to be in trouble tomorrow.”

Boeing has lost $32 billion since 2019, with no end in sight. How long can it keep losing money?

I can see a book/movie coming out of the Boeing drama some day.

He acknowledged that the company had retaliated against employees who have raised safety concerns. Before his opening remarks, he stood from the witness table and turned around to apologize to the family members of Boeing 737 Max victims. They were present in the room with photos of their loved ones.

‘I know it happens’: Boeing chief admits the company has retaliated against whistleblowers

...former Boeing quality-control manager, Merle Meyers' allegations that workers routinely took parts that were deemed unsuitable to fly out of an internal scrap yard and put them back on factory assembly lines.

Why this whistleblower claims Boeing used defective parts in its planes

Boeing agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States — in this case, deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration.

Here’s what to know about Boeing agreeing to plead guilty to fraud in 737 Max crashes

“Boeing’s process to address deficiencies to date has been ineffective, and the company has generally been nonresponsive in taking corrective actions when the same quality control issues reoccur,” it said.

NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control in new report