They renew their demands for president lucas shanteau to step aside its the 12th straight weekend of protests following his disputed election victory. And in formula one Lewis Hamilton wins again this time in italy to extend his record breaking number of victories to 93. And a richardson and welcome to the show u. S. President donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are making their final pitches to voters ahead of tuesdays election trump is holding Campaign Rallies in 5 battleground states meanwhile joe biden is focusing on the key state of pennsylvania and most major polling shows biden ahead in the critical battleground states needed to win but trump believes he can defy the polls once again and poll. A shock victory. The final dance before the big election day on tuesday. U. S. President donald trump addressed frenetic fans in 5 different swing states on sunday visibly fighting the cold but with his usual selfconfidence. Though you win 4 more years in that very beautiful white house. With your vote we will continue to cut your taxes cut regulations and ensure that bore products are made and raised and grown in the usa. With only a couple of days left to complain trump focused on crucial swing states like michigan and iowa before heading to georgia and florida. Despite its breath at levis in corona virus cases in the u. S. Supporters packed into the rallies most of them not adhering to social distancing rules or wearing masks. That will be very different scenes at joe bidens compay in valleys and pennsylvania most supporters stayed in their cars as the democratic candidate welcomed them president droppers terrified of what will happen to the president you know if the people president get that other say if you have your say he doesnt stand a chance biden also blasted trump for dividing the country and thats exactly what trump for trying to do for her to get a divided america based on race religion gender National Origin its wrong its not who we are biden has a Comfortable Lead in most of the polls but he knows that election day turnout will be crucial in deciding the new president of the United States well joining me now is our chief Political Editor in washington d. C. Were nearly there only 2 days until election day why are biden and trump a visiting these states in particular. Well because they know they need 2 options of towards the presidency theres either the rust belt or the sun belt by the south now joe biden decided on the rust belt state of pennsylvania today where he really had to make a cause for getting him elected this is after his comments that were critical of a continuation of fossil fuels here in the United States and that is something that could be seen as a job killer so he knows that he has to gain some ground there pennsylvania expected to be a key state and with donald trump heading for that Southern Roots more today but quite clearly he aims to be zigzagging the country to get that small moxon to fight until the very last moment because although joe biden is seen overall in the lead by the pollsters there individual districts also individual states where he is within the error of margin and we all remember from 2016 what that could mean well most of major polling that shows biden currently ahead in all of the critical battleground states what difference if any is this last minute blitz going to really make in those key states. Well it demonstrates commitment thats what trump is a banking on but at the same time we know that a lot of votes have already simply been cast more than 19000000. 00 that translates into more than 70 percent of ballots that were actually handed in last time around a lot more postal balloting and this is actually a key issue because we see these candidates on the campaign trail still but a lot of this is life to be fought in the courts we heard 6 donald trump today before his rally in North Carolina say that he wants to see a result on Election Night that he thinks its very bad as he put it that ballots should be counted after election day and i have to add that that is something that is a common practice in states like pennsylvania who allow for postal ballots to be posted and handed in up until election day is the postal stamp that counts well he disagrees and here the republicans lost a key challenge in texas today where they had tried to get 130000 ballots declared invalid because they were cast through a drive in ballot box system and we expect to see a lot of that and we expect to see a lot of that on the Election Night so we might even see donald trump declare himself and thats what everybody is afraid of to have one because he feels winning means winning on the night but a lot of ballots will still have to be counted in the following days and as it looks a very significant chunk of those ballots cast. In washington d. C. Many thanks. Now police in belarus have fired warning shots and used stun grenades and then attempt to disperse tens of thousands of protesters marching in central minsk dozens of demonstrators there have been arrested where massive protests demanding the resignation of longtime president aleksander the shango are now in their 12 straight week. Run deterred by threats of Police Violence thousands of protesters marched through the streets of minsk their destination a wooded area on the citys outskirts once used as an execution site by starland secret police. But to get there theyd have to make it past because police on this 12th weekend of protest against his rule Security Forces once again deploying familiar tactics arrests stun grenades and morning shots. For head of sundays march lucas income met with Law Enforcement and had this warning for protesters use the border we will take no prisoners if someone touches the servicemen and ive spoken to the generals they should leave without their hands at the very least. Hes not backing down but neither are his opponents not until they get what they want a Fair Election and a fresh start for about lovers. Of take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of royalists have gathered at bangkoks grand palace for a glimpse of thailands king and queen the show of support comes amid months of huge antigovernment protests which have also called for reform of the monarchy and a rare direct comment on the protesters the king said quote we love them all the same. Rescue workers have called a 14 Year Old Girl from a collapsed building in western turkey almost 60 hours after a strong earthquake in the agency struck the region but hopes of finding more survivors are fading fast the quake has killed dozens of people and hundreds more are injured. Ivory coasts leader i lost son ouattara has taken an early lead in the countrys president ial election hes seeking a 3rd term in an election thats been marred by violence opposition parties who boycotted the vote say several people were killed in clashes on polling day on saturday. Once after the deadly blast that killed scores of people in beirut life is still a monumental struggle for those living within the blast zone for much of the cleanup has been taken care of many families are unable to afford repairs or reconstruction of their homes it comes as winter approaches and the pandemic returns to the lebanese capital. And the dean cuss up is trying to bring some order back into her home 3 months on from the moment the destruction to beirut the flood still lies in complete disrepair. With winter fast approaching work needs to be done urgently to fix the damage the family all said ready to take 3 months have passed since the port explosion we have damaged homes as walls have been shattered were feeling calling try to cover the broken windows. When it rains water pours into our flat but thats it yet we have to carry on with our lives while youre in the bill but you would know. Nadines mother has had to move in with them her home is in a neighborhood worst affected by the blast it was damaged so badly that she can no longer live. An eyelash how i live and i who life in that house. My 4 kids got married that 2 girls and 2 boys. And i planted every single tree there myself that knows that all my happiness is connected to that house that i was with those trees every day now ive been forced to leave my home and had been. And the corona pandemic has forced the family to spend even more time indoors deans son cyril is studying from home all his schooling is now online in a country that is technologically far from advanced that can be a challenge. But that ive been on line problem is that the internet in lebanon is really slow and my home hasnt been repaired so its hard to study and attend my online classes in peace. But the concept families simply cant afford the repairs the lebanese economy is in dire straits and suffering from huge inflation their situation is echoed all over beirut meaning that destroyed homes and rubble will mark the city for some time to come. When German Bundesliga football now and unbeaten leverkusen and travel to. Briber knowing that a win would leave them at just a 3 points off the top of the league freiburg meanwhile were looking to address an alarming slump in form they were without a victory in their last 4 games going into this one. It was a sopping wet day in the black forest yet live accusing the coach peter bose and freiburg counterpart christian were all smiles in the rain despite the contrasting fortunes of their teams. Struggling freiburg took a surprise lead on 3 minutes to lucas who looked but for a book had thrown away leads in their last 2 games and their fragility showed again after 20 minutes because a lot of you were punished by shocking but from nicholas who flew. Up the argentine 2nd shortly after partly for crews to warm up the break. Into the 2nd half and not the immunity seemed to help the game with this cracker on 64 minutes. Before news pages the drug friedberg back into the game. Notes and restored leverkusen student lead 40 minutes from time that proved the last goal of a frantic 90 minutes live a can extend their unbeaten run to 6 games and move within 3 points of leaders by a well from burkes miserable run goes on. Lewis hamilton has moved one step closer to winning his 7th the world title with a victory in the emiliaromagna grand prix in italy the win extended his record to 93 formula one victories. That wasnt the best start for Lewis Hamilton who began the race in 2nd behind her citys teammate of all terry porter nonslip the 3rd in the opening up but he soon recovered to take the lead. Red bulls mark for stuff and who held on and 30 managed to jump past boss with 20 laps remaining proves to be short lived. Ri took seconds on for stop and he kept up the pressure crush trying to after suffering what looked like tire failure. Of the growth of the car. Tires couldnt regain the top spot more Lewis Hamilton meant tined his lead the briton held on to pick up a record extending 93rd career when strangely and Daniel Ricardo finished 3rd from. People watching maybe think were used to this but it just always feels like the 1st of this thing and i think this is the spirit and so im forever forever grateful to everyone there with the team or so days finishing 1st and 2nd and i mean theyve clinched a record 7th straight constructors talking to the team and before we go up her route reopened its world famous inca city much of picchu on sunday after 7 months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic the reopening of the inca stone citadel was celebrated without ceremony the site has strict measures admitting only 30 percent of its normal visitor capacity. Thats his half day and richardson thanks for watching. Can you hear me knowing theres we dont need you in my last years german chancellor will bring you im going to mass call and you never have surprise yourself with what is possible to this miracle really what moves and want. To talk to people in full along the way maurice and critics alike join us for metals last stop. A true american champion. Along the leading aircraft menu. That sure worldwide and i call it engineering problems. Boeing people are very proud of the work its known all over the world people here are proud of it were proud of it. But marge had 2019 proved a major turning point for boeing. In ethiopia a passenger plane with 157 people on board has crashed now im not a survivor. The victims were from 35. 00 countries including 5 germans. Children mourned for their parents men and women for their partners and parents for their children. Less than 5 months earlier a plane of the same type that already crashed in indonesia resulting in 189 deaths. A suspicion quickly arose that there might be a connection. Where the crash is more than tragic accidents was there an issue that went beyond the 737. 00. As fortunately this seems to have developed into a system in recent years and has penetrated deep inside boeings whole internal structure. In our investigation we met with boeing insiders who felt abandoned by regulators some even reports of violence and threats. And he told me. Push it until you break and then im going to come in a fiction he told me several times well they broke me. 2 crashes within 5 months with 2 brand new boeing 737 max 346 people die and theyre just a number. There were 157 people on board the Ethiopian Airlines plane. Their relatives want their photos put on display in order for the victims not to be forgotten. One of the yasar i saw left behind an entire family and just 3 daughters now have no father. The entire in your org family was killed including 3 children. Another victim barry philip was just 28 years old. I. Swore going slow mo it was a sunday like any other. We were looking forward to the spring and everything behind the house turning green again and then the phone rang let us telephone click that and then what you believe it was her partner on the phone and i thought whats he calling about hes never called before. The 1st few minutes he couldnt get a word out yes and then he said marie had been on the plane and turks. Thought. Im from this fund instead it was a business trip she worked for ego and in east africa theyre responsible for bringing countries together to collaborate on resilience to drought city and she had a meeting there would have meant for. The most of all i admired how she always knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to make the world a better place. Marie philip was flying along with 156 other passengers in a boeing 737 max from addis ababa to nairobi for a un meeting. Smartly was sitting here its different right behind an italian he told it next to a kenyan king. It took excavators to dig the debris of the plane out of the ground. The impact was so intense that it almost completely disappeared into the earth. And i dont see just by looking at the pictures you can imagine how everything was absolutely destroyed the impact must have been extreme if you think. About 5 months prior and almost brand new boeing 737 max had crashed into the sea near indonesia just after takeoff. It quickly became clear the cause was not a simple technical defect but rather a flight Computer System like 80. 8. 189 people lost their lives and for many their remains were never found. Their relatives were left to mourn mere memorial services. To revisit a law firm in new york which represents the families of many victims and lawsuits against boeing including the philip family. They dont want to see boeing get off the hook they want to know what caused the crashes was a mere bad luck weather technical problems or a deadly system of concealment and cover up remember lie an error occurred 5 months plus or more use before easy. Line error made it clear that the end cas Computer System was a problem. And right there for the lion here the 737 max should have been ground until they figured it out. So between liars and ethiopia allowing this plane to continue flying sort of made ethiopia predictable predictable. Shortly after the 1st crash the u. S. Air traffic regulator the f. A. A. Prepared to risk analysis. If the 737 macs were to be used worldwide as planned and this were to go on for about 45 years about 15 such crashes were to be expected. A disaster would occur every 3 years. About 3 months after this analysis marie philip lost her life in the 2nd crash. Mean thats unacceptable and you cant simply shrug off another impending plane crash i cant fathom treating human lives so recklessly. On except the will analysis death is 100 percent for the guy who was killed. You dont build airplanes with the expectation or an acceptance of the statistic that such and such can survive 3 years and then theres going to be a career so thats thats thats bad if one builds an airplane accepting the principle that you can accept one crash every 3 years thats an outrageous principle. In boeing p. R. Videos the macs fly smoothly even during extreme maneuvers. But after the 2nd crash the chinese and europeans grounded the plane the american f. A. A. Followed suit the following day. Boeing was unwavering in its determination to find a quick technical solution with new software. At a press conference boeing c. E. O. Downplayed the role of the software. And he seemed to be hoping for support from regulators i think its really important that we all focus on letting the investigation process run its course our job is to focus on safety not on speculation he left many questions unanswered and was forced to resign 8 months later youre finding that 3 out of 4 a certain people died when you actually questions here about that oh we have no contact with buying. The boeing never contacted us. We never heard anything from them no condolences nothing hits. Did their daughter in 156 other people die even though boeing and the f. A. A. Knew that 737 software could cause fatal accidents. The maneuvering characteristics augmentation system or m casper short is designed to improve aircraft handling. But what is that specific role besides statistically causing a crash every 3 years. Why did boeing even install this legal system. It was developed mainly to compete with a new version of the a 320 from air bus the neo was an immediate hit with better engines posting greater fuel economy. Boeing ran the risk of falling behind and needed less fuel hungry engines requiring a larger size. However because the 737800 was lower and the landing gear could not be built higher boeing had a problem. Instead of building a new aircraft boeing decided to use an economy version the engine was mounted further forward and above all higher. The top edge even protrudes be on the wane. This meant the aircraft tended to pull up for much subjected to high thrust which could lead to dangerous flight positions thats why the m. Cast software was installed. In such cases it automatically adjusts the elevator pressing the nose down more. In the crash course it was pushed down too far and too forcefully. Thats the plane should never have been built in this form never have been designed that way and should never have been oppressive to. The slopes of. This blanket not filed it cannot stand on its own just so an additional system has to be in store as theirs and cast system to sleep was meant to compensate for the build same system Era Technology can file and thats what happened here in a way that even the pilots did not know what was happening and that is not an acceptable athlone design concerts or. Boeing doesnt want to give an interview on all these points instead they simply set us a written statement that says the max was a 6 Year Development program undertaken according to the same company processes and identical f. A. A. Requirements and processes that have governed certification of previous new airplanes and derivatives further down the company adds boeing operates in full accordance with all f. A. A. Oversight requirements and processes. Nevertheless instead of building a costly new model in over 50 year old model was simply souped up to compete with airbus. Their model of choice was very popular among pilots as explained to us by a man sitting in a simulator who has flown thousands of hours in. Predecessor of the 737. 00 max. Zoom of the 737 is a very reliable and cost efficient than plane as upon it i find it very pleasant to fly it is very safe to fly its fine behavior is neutral and its. The Computer System which spelled the doom of the crash 730. 00 sevens influences on airplanes trimming. For example if passengers are cabin crew move further forward or backward inside this shift in weight distribution can push the nose of the aircraft up or down the trim and compensates for this. News the pilot just pushes a little switch and the trim wheels next to their seat start turning a relic from the old days when pilots still had to turn the by hand. This shows how old the basic construction is. But in the 2nd 37 the trim will really times that is not the case in all that have cropped up in the 737 you can still see them. The max on board computer could adjust the trimming. But the changes could be tremendous and occur without the pilots knowledge we now know that boeing was fully aware of this information and deliberately kept it a secret. Here in Orlando Florida we visit someone who has spent half his life in boeing jets. Ive always been a big boeing fan because. You know theres a sentimental aspect it was the 1st jet airplane ever flew. When you go to inform the people that are flying an airplane that the that other people trust their lives to if they dont know theyre if they dont know what the machine that theyre flying with every aspect of what theyre flying in you hide something from them that its apparently critical i think its great. If i was still flying. My colleagues may very well in the main may not vocalize it but they may be saying what else if he told me about my triple 7787. We learn of growing concerns in the industry that other boeing models might also have defects ones which are still flying every day. Is that in this not enough unfortunately we have to assume there are similar problems with i have profited by steve us as consumers to service life and overall functionality is his office and it is obvious that in the last few years owing has been very reckless for costs less it forward on board just as he asked and he has not managed to intervene yet in its role as regulator and survives. In advertisements for it 737 boeing placed great emphasis on the fact that the macs differs in practically no way from its predecessor in terms of flight behavior in operation. In an email to an airline a prospective customer it says there is only one difference the off position of the gear handle but Everything Else was said to be the same. The emails also show why this was important to boeing. To make the transition to the new model there will not be any type of Simulator Training required boeing will not allow that to happen. And whenever airlines are regulators demanded Simulator Training boeing employees were proud to have dissuaded them with a jet i mind trick. If the pilots had known about em cas and had been able to train on a malfunction in the simulator they would have had a chance to avoid. The crashes. Why did boeing not want that what would have been so bad about such training. When all just knowing it was a few of the pilots already takes you through all of the buying and such an airline just means that even if the airline which approaches just to 737 mike says it would have to train you to use an ally and has more than just 10 pilots usually its hundreds if not most. Profitable venture belongs to the same thing. More capacity more cost efficiency more. Profits for promotional videos for prospective buyers clearly show boeing offers lower costs efficiency and higher profits for the many things like the species flowing sky interior at high speed the people coming back to fly would do time and time again with that saving millions on Pilot Training is a great selling court its a waste because its when it became clear after the 1st crash that the secret software had put pilots into an impossible situation still no Simulator Training was developed for this purpose. However the pilots were informed of the new system. Pilot dog and sure enough received information about the cast from boeing including instructions on what to do with a fails. Safe procedure in a situation is to hold as controls tight and turn off autopilot automatic frost control and automatic trimming would. I do so using these 2 stabilizer trim contact switches at which point the m. Cast is completely deactivated i can only trim the plane manually using the wheels and i go on fine normally i have to trim by hand using these trim wheels that i can keep flying. According to boeing it would have been that easy. To prevent the crash. Pilot doesnt believe it. Obviously it wasnt Just Software that came up and now you presented that they presented with the fix was to pilots near point and here were pilots that were aware of that crash and couldnt prevent the airplane from crashing with ethiopia. Since the 2nd crash more than 400 aircraft that are not allowed to be delivered in early 2020 production came to a complete stop. Regulators obviously see more problems than Just Software that can be reprogrammed and simply turned off in the event of an error. One year after the crash in ethiopia new technical problems increasingly came to light such as improperly routed cable harnesses and unapproved sensors. Does this mean passengers died because boeing designed an aircraft poorly and kept important details concealed from pilots. Should the regulators have prevented this. The american f. A. A. Is responsible for the u. S. Manufacturer boeing and why did it approve the max. And. The f. A. A. Is headquartered in washington. The federal Aviation Administration is responsible for all aspects of aviation in the usa including the approval of aircraft. 6 months after the 2nd crash in october 21000. 00 the f. A. A. Noticed that boeing had failed to disclose crucial documents for months. The f. A. A. Administrator wrote a strongly worded reprimand to boeing. I expect her explanation immediately regarding the content of this document and bones to lend disclosing the document to its safety regulator. Until then many experts have seen the f. A. A. And boeing is a close knit community. Unfortunately it has become a system in recent years for as it has eaten into the whole internal structure of boeing and also in relation to the f. A. A. The f. A. A. Became increasingly zachs in its oversight with entire working groups consisting of industry representatives headed by an f. A. A. Staff management this means that the decisions were in fact made by the industry for misspeaking of course by the f. A. A. Put its stamp on the institutional construction of how the f. A. A. Was developed in recent years it has to be said yes this institution has failed. But what role do european authorities play. The e. S. A. Is responsible for the certification of the air bus in europe. But it collaborates closely with the f. A. A. Did the europeans know nothing about the m k s could that yes they have prevented the tragic accident. Cologne germany us from to the european counterpart of the f. A. A. The. Only aircraft that have been approved here are permitted to take off and land in europe. This also applies to boeing airplanes from the usa however in order not to go through the whole certification process twice but 2 institutions have agreed to divide up tasks we sit down with boeing we fit and agree with them on the topics on which wants to do specific tests areas which are of Significant Interest from a safety standpoint to us and we are ready to know that it gets better. Fusion. Explicitly explained to us that they too had carried out their own tests on the 737. 00 max. But if so why did they say not discover the new one fateful and pass. In this process. Was live or theres even a. Critical component and therefore in this discussion between the 3 of us since it was not safety critical we decided not to have a look at it. In other words the europeans apparently also fell for boeings jet i might drink they were hypnotized to believe this is not a safety relevant system you dont need to check it. Things changed in the wake of the accidents with the macs and subsequent grounding that now neither wishes to rely on boeings assurances nor the f. A. A. Judgement. Completes. Independent assessment of the. Over the rest of the books and independent that means we. Weve got 50 so its its. Clearly lessons you know its. Its how we want to do you weve the new so its fusion of. Its the you know crafts but the crucial bit of it we have this is. The european regulator promises more independence and no longer wishes to blindly trust the f. A. A. Will that be possible. The story of a man still currently employed at boeing shows there are limits. He must decline to give us an interview and didnt participate in this report in any way. Boeing employees are allowed to report safety concerns to the f. A. A. And he did. The boeing employee is now represented by a lawyer. The questions he has to answer as a whistleblower are too complex. We already know his lawyer professor. Im on that side. Here is my client has been pointing out incidents and procedures that he no longer considered acceptable. So he reported them to his immediate superior to boeings head of safety. Board of directors. And it wasnt rejected outright because that would have been too blatant and he had knowledge of the issue and yet in. This boeing employee isnt working on the 737 but the 787 dreamliner a larger long range jet. In a promotional video boeing presents the 2 of them together in the air and for a good reason the dreamliner is the groups other hot seller besides the 737. However unlike the max. Both a completely new design which as far as is known eliminates the need for software to compensate for dangerous flight turk touristic. But the boeing employee has reported other problems to be f. A. A. He was instrumental in planning the dreamliner production. He noticed that parts repeatedly showed up in the plant from suppliers that did not correspond to the design drawings and that really should be rejected. They would recurrent lee just disappear. Some in fact are installed he reports and yet parts that dont meet specifications are considered a safety risk. But the engineer doesnt think the f. A. A. Is really taking action. Is being cautious in its response taking the case seriously but they arent tackling it actively at least thats how it looks to us theyre trying to sort things out internally with boeing and i have not seen the old traditional money yet. Thats why in spring 21000. 00 the boeing employees decided also to report a safety concerns to the european e. A. S. A. Which has been relying more heavily on its own testing since the next precious. Draw its own conclusions from the specific information on production defects regarding Boeings Dreamliner 787. On any type of plane on any type of operation if someone comes to us and says varies city problem we look at it but if you test to deal with the quality of the manufacturing and things like that this is not within the scope of responsibility. Isnt she so its very difficult we can. Say to view ok look we received. This information but there it starts we cannot investigate those cells. I do not have the rights. To send inspectors to a moving Production Facility in u. S. Its so so far and its. Did a lack of sufficiently thorough checks by regulators caused people to lose their lives. And do we face a future danger due to european regulators inability to investigate american whistleblowers reports independently. The issue goes beyond this one boeing employee who doesnt want to be named. Many other insiders warned of dangerous boeing jets and have been doing so since long before the macs crash and. Boeing operates a large plant near charleston south carolina. Here some of the people we meet have worked for boeing for decades and the defects they reported of in planes delivered to customers are sometimes deeply disconcerting. 25 percent of their oxygen systems will not operate properly and certainly so so when they have been a big compression event right your oxygen masks fall and you only coordinate releases oxygen so you know with 40000 feet the average person has like 15 or 20 seconds of. Cognitive consciousness and what we found is 25 percent of them do not work properly when when deployed. You have hundreds and hundreds of loss nonconforming so whenever those parts are being done acceptable for use they need to be segregated so theyre not used on the airplane we discovered that over 1800. 00 nonconforming parts were missing and presumably installed on airplanes while helping the. Boeing doesnt dispute this but explains. At the conclusion of the audit all of a. Parts were accounted for or cleared as having no impact to any aircraft. Boeing went on to say the oxygen masks were tested regularly and they had addressed the matter with the supplier through their normal f. A. A. Approved process. You can rely on not the max it also been approved by the f. A. A. And unlike the macs hundreds of dreamliner 7 in service around the world each day. 77 is also take off and land regularly a german airports and every day thousands of passengers rely on the planes to be as safe as they have been for decades. But long time boeing employees fear the dreamliner might betray the strongest and anyone who pointed out defects would face tremendous problems. I did have one manager that worked with me back and he recorded all the aircraft on what was wrong with them and what they were sending out the back door that had been facts and the director quality told him i dont want any more of these papers or any more of these pictures sent to me and you know he said wall im taking this to ethics were going to take this to ethics because people are going to die here 3 weeks later they put him into another building and put him on a performance and he was walked out the door and lost his job. When i started that in 2009 and the aircraft in my building would move every 3 weeks to the next section so the same amount of work that was involved at that time for the movement of the 3 weeks when i left was being done every 3 days so it was actually increased from 3 weeks to 3 days with with the same amount of employees or less doing the work. Going produce the. The original commercial and time lapse and boeing confirmed in writing that production had been accelerated but it was optimized in a way that still guaranteed safety. But cynthia kitchens reports what happened when someone reported quality defects. If you brought anything forward you were a target they believe june harassed you. I was actually physically assaulted by another manager penned up against a railing and told to get on the good old boy system all right going nowhere in this Company Actually 3 weeks later he became my boss and was in charge of my raises and and my performance reviews and things. She to turn to the f. A. A. And had photo documented defects in aircraft this included bolts that had obviously been tightened with the wrong tool and thus damaged. And deeper down wiring harnesses lay surrounded by countless metal splinters. These were sharp edged metal splinters between important cables that distribute control signals throughout the airplane. Without cynthia kitchens knowledge her colleague john barnett was making the same observation at about the same time the slow vors that identified in the wiring i was told to go over different area and they brought in a one year boeing manager in my place to handle this slivers and thats when they decided to let it go. So they delivered over 800 airplanes with these slivers of what i understand theyre still delivering them today because they still havent fixed the the issue thats calls in the 1st place. Both fear they could rub through the insulation and cause short circuits over the course of years of service. Boeing informed us that they had in fact discovered such splinters in 2017. They claimed the f. A. A. Had investigated them and found they did not present a safety of flight issue. Boeing also informed us that all aircraft delivered to customers were absolutely safe also thanks to tests performed by the f. A. A. Engineer john barnett isnt convinced we have a rule of thumb in production that takes 8 to 10 years for a defect to become an issue on aircraft as a rule of thumb sometimes it sooner most thomas later net but. We delivered our 1st airplane out of charleston in 2012 so were just now here 8 to 10 year range of word defects become an issue. And im scared with the next 23 years going to show what the 77 i hope im wrong but im scared of whats going to come up. Boeing insists that all deliberate aircraft are safe. But employees who object to speak to the press are also expressing their fears in internal emails. For instance one wrote. We pick the lowest cost supplier. Everyone has it in their head meeting schedule is most important not delivering quality. And a bit further down in the text its systemic its culture. And the statement boeing doing these emails unacceptable saying they didnt show boeing to be the kind of company it actually is and strives to be. But they are undoubtedly from boeing employees and show a Corporate Culture that has had catastrophic consequences for the max. If you believe the insiders this may also end badly for other boeing planes. But how did this dangerous Corporate Culture come about. In these deliberations the name of a nearly forgotten aircraft manufacturer always comes up. Mcdonnell douglas. Knowing was founded over 100 years ago in seattle on the west coast of the us a. Software company such as microsoft and amazon also called the city home. But when it comes to industrial jobs and work for tens of thousands in the suburbs. Boeing is the heart of the city. And because a boeing. This Seattle Community in the surrounding greater syria seattle area. Grew up with a middle class working Class Population that that had fantastic incomes. Better than most working people all over america. If we lose that we become a city full of. Rich people and Homeless People nothing in between because were bowing it was so its very important to this community that going existence see. Having to keep the macs on the ground for so long is met a few. Sales subsequently fell by a quarter and for the 1st time in decades the group has seen losses. When the Coronavirus Crisis also hit in march of 2020 the share price finally plummet. Toing employees we spoke to place the blame on management the Technology Group is said to have lost its soul and moral compass. But watching. The boeing triple 7 was a typical boeing product of that time and it was seen as the the peak of Engineering Technology i pad thai this was the mid ninetys but it did overrun in cost a lot which was again typical of boeing but because of the cost overruns on that plan in the lead 990. 00 s. Boeing joined with Mcdonnell Douglas the doll douglas piston said lewis. Was much more focused on money and finances so there is record of Mcdonnell Douglas started rolling bowl run at boeing with the same Business Case that they were in Mcdonnell Douglas and its all about shareholder value and making a profit. The safety and airworthiness of the airplane. But in the late 1990 s. Not just boeings Management Change the whole Aviation Industry transforming. Airbus were to become a new major competitor even selling more aircraft than boeing for a time in the early to thousands. Aircraft manufacturers customers also changed as an increasing number of low Cost Airlines became major players. The ticket price war broke out now every cent counted for aircraft purchasers as well. Competition and profit seeking lead to aircraft being designed with built in safety risks. According to boeing insiders not just in the case of a 737 max. Pilot davi true and i can trust his life and those of his passengers to a boeing airplane almost every day. However he doesnt feel the problems are specific to boeing but rather rooted in society at large. And leaked from i dont see boeing as a source of the problem but the entire economy of the industry just look at the exhaust gas i dont see as involved in supplant economic pressure and a lack of oversight by regulators which can lead to even the largest corporations making fatal mistakes and of. The problem however is that errors and aircraft construction often prove more fatal than in other sectors accidents usually cost many lives. Statistically flying remains the safest way to travel. In order to keep things this way safety must be valued more highly than profits. And some people see the max crashes as a wakeup call. The next was really a tragedy and. Its going to be mostly the story of physicians when you look at the. Commercial for this or in fact of the next tragedy. You also for investors for financial people i think this would make them think twice. Even the us you know for shortcuts and some of the safety to have short term you know return on investment short of the return on investment that all the dust does 1st moment i live in i think the events we are currently experiencing will lead to a huge sort of training process a success a selfsustaining process of the Aviation Industry that a lot of chatted a lot has to change it should also and it will happen if i think that once these things have actually been cleaned out i can gradually place more trust of them if in the aviation sector in assisting the father of. 346 people died in the 737 next precious. Those 346 deaths could have been avoided. If Cost Reduction hadnt played such a big role at boeing and the regulators have provided proper oversight. The families want these avoidable deaths to have consequences. Guess what michelle e. We wanted those responsible to be found and punished that was my Immediate Reaction is a good dog but it doesnt do us any good i dont now we just want to control mechanisms to work again and for flying to become safer and. Jailing the pictionary for convincing deception. Photo Editing Software distorts what is real. Possibilities for. The new truth. 21. 30. Literature invites us to see people in particular. I like to see how it sounds as the kids find strength growing up around. This dish. Give me books on you to. How does a virus spread. Why do we panic and when well all miss. Just 3 of the topics covered and the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the crown of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at dot com slash science. 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