Hey, I don't even work on Boeing.
It's funny b/c there's an episode of @majorityreport.bsky.social that goes into the spectacular decline of Boeing. Basically, this is just another case of them cutting corners to put more money in their shareholders' pockets. They killed people & got doing it.
It's not just the executives, the engineers are under a lot of pressure from the executives & they aren't taking as much time with the build mechanics. The build mechanics aren't as good as they used to be b/c Boeing has been trying to crush the union for decades & moved some production to SC.
where there is no union. I don't know the particulars of that door plug, but it sounds like it was a "quick" modification to lengthen the fuselage to allow for more seats. In theory it gave the company more production flexibility but strays from traditional aircraft building & this is the result.
