Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 23, 2024

Nah, not a worst case scenario. If whoever was coming to complain to the boss got crushed by the door, then I would say that it’s pretty typical.

Nope. Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was the worst case scenario of ‘open door’

There are things known, things not known, and in between through that open Door(s) are things you’d rather not know about! :-b

I agree that the blown out door was a serious mistake… but they lucked out: Nobody even injured more than a tiny bit.

PS: Yet another reason to always keep your belt on unless you’re moving about.

♬ Break on through to the other side ♬

- The Doors

I’d begin to wonder what kind of chicken sh!t organisation I’d got myself involved in …

This is a fun cartoon…

I assume that office belongs to yet another McDonnell/Douglas jerk who then took over Boeing & then went to yet another company to wreck.

’Tain’t funny, MaGee!

And Boeing is still trying to grease the wheels for the FAA to not look too closely at their new aircraft.

Whoa… karate chop straight to the corporate jewels.

NO airline will be using the “open door” term for a very long time!!!

Boing. (alternate spelling)

Yet management will still get a bigger bonus.

Must be at Boeing.

You should see the department of submarine screen doors.

Long ago Dehavilland Comet 4 had to redesign a window to become Dehavilland Comet 4B…

Maybe we should stop letting Boeing from being its own unsupervised QA/QC release group.

Another worse situation: when the boss’s door that is always open for you leads directly to the outside, but his office is on the 14th floor.

Too soon.

Former employer of D.B. Cooper.

There was a saying, “If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going.”

The new version goes, “If it’s Boeing, I’m not going!”

This raises the question " just what happened to the quality control " at the place that made the plane ?

I remember reading, maybe ten years ago or so, that there were bolts being manufactured in other countries that were not being made to the proper specifications. There are specific markings on heads of bolts that designate the strength…..if a manufacture is sold inferior quality bolts from a supplier bad things can happen. Just saying.

Another prescient one…

Institutional blindness/deafness demonstrated here.

They’re still making a big deal of checking the door fastenings. How much work is it, to check 4 bolts?

1 guy to work, 3 guys to watch him, 4 guys to watch the other 4 guys and someone to go for coffee.

Guys is a generic term, may apply to either gender.

Today’s Joke…."What’s Orange and sleeps three?

“A DPW truck.”

American craftsmanship in full view.

They must not be using ISO standards

Righty tighty, lefty loosy. Not that hard to remember, QC.

Oops.

A modern twist to an old saying:

“It’s Boeing, or I’m not going……….to be sucked out of an airplane.”

What gets me is that everyone calls it a door. It isn’t a door. It’s the overwing emergency escape hatch. Nobody goes through that hatch to get in the plane. That’s what the 4 doors are for. 2 up front and 2 in the back. I flew the 737.

My wife was a senior flight attendant for United until 1987. She was involved in a High altitude accident 37,000 ft.)on a Boeing 737 in which a large portion of the under belly fell off. She was sitting jump seat next to a mechanic who upon hearing the body part dislodge froze in white knuckle fear. They dove to 5,000 ft and landed in Las Vegas. Her health declined from then on, suffering brain stem and vestibular injuries.

I’m in the middle of watching The Legend of The Three Caballeros (2018). Every time they enter their headquarters, they or somebody breaks down the door.

Within 72 hours after the accident, I saw a cartoon very like this one. Wiley must not have known about it, for if he had, this cartoon would never have been drawn.

Hmm…nice boss!

Even worse – no more knock knock jokes.

Another cheap shot, Wiley…Don’t bother yourself to come up with something original!

This happened less than 3 weeks ago. How did Wiley get it in print so fast? I thought comics were written 6 weeks in advance.

I guess it wouldn’t have been remotely humorous if there had been hands and feet sticking out from under the sides of the door?

That’s what happens when you put profits over consumer safety.

DC-3 s are still flying without ever losing a door

OH, burn!

Yikes!

The company didn’t build (or install) the office door.

The fact that they don’t seem to be upset about the door does make one wonder if that same attitude is reflected in the quality of the doors (and windows) that they DO make…

Is this Airbus ad reminding us of Boeing Quainty control issues?

Worked at a company whose President proclaimed that he had “an open door policy”. Declared that if you had any problems or suggestions, come into his office any time and he’d like to hear all about it.

In reality, after observing what happened to coworkers who took the President up on his “open door policy”, it was a trap. That President did not like the rabble interrupting him (was even overheard telling his secretary to “keep those idiots out”). Every coworker who managed to get into the President’s office did get shown an open door: the open door to the street as they were fired and kicked out.

Boeing supplier

The president is unhinged

I wonder if he wrote this the day that 737 door fell off… If he wrote it earlier then that is prescient!

My door is always…unhinged?

Too soon?

Boeing vendor

All those bolts,screws and quick-lock fasteners are a bore to reinstall. Hardly anybody notices if it’s not done properly. so what’s the problem?

Dang, Wiley! You jumped on this one really quickly!!! I am really impressed! ❤️❤️❤️

The New York Times yesterday had an article about Boeing and what went terribly wrong with a company that prioritized Safety with innovation since it was founded in 1916. It simply said the merger with McDonnell Douglas sent Boeing into the opposite direction of its goals. Boeing employees who were taught Safety as paramount found themselves at odds with the new Profit first agenda that McDonnell espoused and Safety costs money, many retired early causing a brain drain in the company or left for other opportunities. After the 2018 and 2019 crashes and now the new concerns over what happened with the Alaska Airlines plane (btw Alaska has an excellent safety record, it is one of the safest airlines in the world. It is #8 according to the International Air Transport Association and the top US airline) will have the FAA take a closer look. There has been talk of the FAA giving Boeing lots of elbow room with the Max planes passing inspections. The Max planes were pushed ahead quickly in response to AirBus’ new line of planes. The Max 4th generation 737 design is not a new plane, Boeing decided that a new design meant a lot of R&D which the McDonnell people did not want. So here we are. In hindsight a childhood friend is a retired international pilot, he said he has no problems flying the Max jets, the problem was lack of training of pilots for the new plane and many new pilots rely on the systems of computers to fly the plane so went something goes wrong they forget to just fly the plane. The two crashes had a new system that read the plane’s attitude for level flight, when the data it was receiving was incorrect it pushed the nose down resulting in the crashes, there were other instances of the same but those pilots shut off that computer and manually ‘flew’ the plane. Sorry about the long explanation.