Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, US safety board report says.
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly56w0p9e1o
#HackerNews #Boeing #Flaw #UPS #Crash #Aviation #Safety #Investigation
Rob Whittaker
boosted
The only ones who truly benefit from the #WarMachine are #Corporations! And this is further proof! My uncle was in the US Army and when he was discharged, he could fix just about anything electro-mechanical! But nooooo... We can't have folks fixing stuff themselves -- just buy new ones and waste #taxpayer money!
Congress Quietly Kills Military “ #RightToRepair,” Allowing #Corporations to Cash In on *Fixing* Broken Products
Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.
by Matt Sledge, December 9 2025
"The idea of a 'right to repair' — a requirement that companies facilitate consumers’ #repairs, #maintenance, and modification of products — is extremely popular, even winning broad, bipartisan support in Congress. That could not, however, save it from the #MilitaryIndustrial complex.
" #Lobbyists succeeded in killing part of the National Defense Authorization Act [ #NDAA] that would have given service members the right to fix their equipment in the field without having to worry about military suppliers’ intellectual property.
"The decision to kill the popular proposal was made public Sunday after a closed-door conference of top congressional officials, including defense committee chairs, along with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
"Those meetings were secret, but consumer advocates say they have a pretty good idea of what happened.
" 'It’s pretty clear that defense contractors opposed the right-to-repair provisions, and they pressed hard to have them stripped out of the final bill,' said Isaac Bowers, the federal legislative director at #USPIRG. 'All we can say is that #DefenseContractors have a lot of influence on Capitol Hill.'
"The idea had drawn bipartisan support in both the House and Senate, which each passed their own versions of the proposal.
"Under one version, co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mt., defense companies would have been required to supply the information needed for repairs — such as technical data, maintenance manuals, engineering drawings, and lists of replacement parts — as a condition of Pentagon contracts.
"The idea was that no service member would ever be left waiting on a contractor to fly in from Norway to repair a simple part — which once happened — or, in another real-life scenario, told by the manufacturer to buy a new CT scanner in a combat zone because one malfunctioned.
"Instead of worrying about voiding a warranty, military personnel in the field could use a 3D printer or elbow grease to fix a part.
" 'The military is a can-do operation,' Bowers said. 'Service members can and should be able to repair their own equipment, and this will save costs if they can do it upfront and on time and on their schedule.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/09/congress-military-ndaa-right-to-repair/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/54Nro
#EndlessWar #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #USInvasions #USPol #ContractorProfiteering #LockheedMartin #Boeing #NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct
The only ones who truly benefit from the #WarMachine are #Corporations! And this is further proof! My uncle was in the US Army and when he was discharged, he could fix just about anything electro-mechanical! But nooooo... We can't have folks fixing stuff themselves -- just buy new ones and waste #taxpayer money!
Congress Quietly Kills Military “ #RightToRepair,” Allowing #Corporations to Cash In on *Fixing* Broken Products
Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.
by Matt Sledge, December 9 2025
"The idea of a 'right to repair' — a requirement that companies facilitate consumers’ #repairs, #maintenance, and modification of products — is extremely popular, even winning broad, bipartisan support in Congress. That could not, however, save it from the #MilitaryIndustrial complex.
" #Lobbyists succeeded in killing part of the National Defense Authorization Act [ #NDAA] that would have given service members the right to fix their equipment in the field without having to worry about military suppliers’ intellectual property.
"The decision to kill the popular proposal was made public Sunday after a closed-door conference of top congressional officials, including defense committee chairs, along with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
"Those meetings were secret, but consumer advocates say they have a pretty good idea of what happened.
" 'It’s pretty clear that defense contractors opposed the right-to-repair provisions, and they pressed hard to have them stripped out of the final bill,' said Isaac Bowers, the federal legislative director at #USPIRG. 'All we can say is that #DefenseContractors have a lot of influence on Capitol Hill.'
"The idea had drawn bipartisan support in both the House and Senate, which each passed their own versions of the proposal.
"Under one version, co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mt., defense companies would have been required to supply the information needed for repairs — such as technical data, maintenance manuals, engineering drawings, and lists of replacement parts — as a condition of Pentagon contracts.
"The idea was that no service member would ever be left waiting on a contractor to fly in from Norway to repair a simple part — which once happened — or, in another real-life scenario, told by the manufacturer to buy a new CT scanner in a combat zone because one malfunctioned.
"Instead of worrying about voiding a warranty, military personnel in the field could use a 3D printer or elbow grease to fix a part.
" 'The military is a can-do operation,' Bowers said. 'Service members can and should be able to repair their own equipment, and this will save costs if they can do it upfront and on time and on their schedule.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/09/congress-military-ndaa-right-to-repair/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/54Nro
#EndlessWar #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #USInvasions #USPol #ContractorProfiteering #LockheedMartin #Boeing #NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct
📣 New Podcast! "1 November 2008: Boeing workers win strike" on @Spreaker #boeing #history #workers
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1-november-2008-boeing-workers-win-strike--68370896
Boeing’s 777X is slated to fly commercially for the first time in early 2027 instead of next year, a fresh setback to the U.S. planemaker that sets the stage for potentially billions of dollars in accounting charges. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/03/boeing-plane-2027-setback/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #boeing #airlines #investments
Alex Akselrod
boosted
ICYMI - from 2015:
#BernieSanders Exposes 18 Top #Corporate Tax Dodgers
1. Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $1.9 billion tax refund.
2. #GoldmanSachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $278 million tax refund.
3. JP Morgan #Chase CEO James Dimon
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department? $416
billion.
4. #GeneralElectric CEO Jeffrey Immelt
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $3.3 billion tax refund.
5. #Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $705 million tax refund.
6. #Boeing CEO James McNerney, Jr.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? None. $124 million tax refund.
7. #Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Amount of federal income taxes Microsoft would have owed if offshore tax havens
were eliminated? $19.4 billion.
8. #Honeywell International CEO David Cote
Amount of federal income taxes paid from 2008-2010? Zero. $34 million tax refund.
9. #Corning CEO Wendell Weeks
Amount of federal income taxes paid from 2008-2010? Zero. $4 million tax refund.
10. #TimeWarner CEO Glenn Britt
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $74 million tax refund.
11. #Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2009? Zero. $55 million tax refund.
12. #Deere & Company CEO Samuel Allen
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2009? Zero. $1 million tax refund.
13. Marsh & McLennan Companies CEO Brian Duperreault Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $90 million refund.
14. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs
Amount of federal income taxes Qualcomm would have owed if offshore tax havens
were eliminated? $4.7 billion.
15. Tenneco CEO Gregg Sherill
Amount of federal income taxes Tenneco would have owed if offshore tax havens
were eliminated? $269 million.
16. Express Scripts CEO George Paz
Amount of federal income taxes Express Scripts would have owed if offshore tax
havens were eliminated? $20 million.
17. Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman
Amount of federal income taxes Caesars Entertainment would have owed if offshore
tax havens were eliminated? $9 million.
18. R.R. Donnelly & Sons CEO Thomas Quinlan III
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $49 million tax refund.
Boeing 757 with 281 aboard makes emergency landing after mid-air fire
A couple of weeks ago, flight attendants filed a lawsuit against Boeing because a door detached from the plane during a flight.
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/boeing-757-catches-fire-mid-air
https://abcnews.go.com/US/flight-attendants-alaska-airlines-door-plug-flight-sue/story?id=124266125
Brutal closing words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-arVbTrwUw
"The experts who tell us about all the challenges that face COMAC going up against Airbus and especially Boeing, have everything wrong.
In order to make sales and take market share, all COMAC has to be is minimally competent. As long as they aren't horrible at their job, they will sell planes as fast as they can build them."
(COMAC is the chinese airliner manufacturer)
Puget Sound Anarchists: Arson against drone manufacturer, Boeing subsidiary
https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/arson-against-drone-manufacturer-boeing-subsidiary/
submitted anonymouslyIn the early morning hours of July 23rd, an Insitu van was set ablaze while it sat in an empty lot across…
#Attack#Uncategorized#Action#Arson#Boeing#Borders#Drones#Hoodriver#Palestine#Surveillance
The Airbus A380 superjumbo, which enjoyed an unexpected resurgence when global travel rebounded after the pandemic, is becoming an increasingly expensive headache for airlines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/29/companies/biggest-passenger-planes-breaking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airbus #aviation #airlines #boeing #a380
A Jeju Air plane that crashed in December after a bird strike could have kept flying on one damaged engine that was still working, according to South Korean investigators. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/28/asia-pacific/jeju-air-jet-engine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #jejuair #airaccidents #southkorea #boeing
Delta Boeing 767 engine bursts into flames after takeoff from LAX airport.
https://abc7.com/post/video-shows-planes-engine-burst-flames-shortly-takeoff-lax/17206825/
India ordered its airlines to examine fuel switches on several Boeing models, while South Korea said it would order a similar measure, as scrutiny intensifies of fuel switch locks after a deadly Air India crash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/15/airlines-boeing-fuel-switches-air-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #boeing #airlines #aviation #airindia #airaccidents #india #southkorea
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have privately issued notifications that the fuel switch locks on Boeing planes are safe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/world/air-india-probe-us-faa-boeing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #airindia #us #faa #boeing #aviation #airlines #airaccidents
The Air India jetliner that crashed on June 12 was doomed almost immediately upon taking off, after both engines lost fuel supply and the pilots ran out of time to regain control and avert catastrophe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/13/world/air-india-crash-cockpit-fuel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #india #airindia #airaccidents #boeing
A month after the worst aviation accident in India in decades, authorities are poised to release a preliminary report into the catastrophe, offering the first official clues to what caused the aircraft to crash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/11/asia-pacific/air-india-crash-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #airindia #aviation #airaccidents #boeing #india
A preliminary report into the deadly crash of an Air India jetliner in June is expected to be released by Friday, with the probe said to have narrowed its focus to the movement of the plane's fuel control switches. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/09/companies/air-india-jet-fuel-crash-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airindia #airlines #airaccidents #boeing