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Steep dive
The American company Boeing was once considered a symbol of reliability and safety in aviation. To get to the top, the company took risks and invested in innovation, raising standards. However, over time, the greed of top management and the lost competition of Airbus forced the company to save on everything. This policy led to a series of disasters that Boeing did not want to admit. However, she didn’t have to: connections with the authorities helped her avoid responsibility and even extract new concessions from the state, which outraged the families of people who died in disasters. The rise and fall of Boeing - in the material "Cold".
We put people at the center of our journalism and talk about people who face injustice, but do not lose spirit and continue to fight for their rights and freedoms. To continue covering people's stories, we need the support of readers - thanks to your donations, we continue to work, despite government pressure.Former engineer John Barnett has flown to Charleston, South Carolina, to testify in his case against Boeing. On the morning of March 9, 2024, both sides were scheduled to arrive at 10 a.m. for a final round of questions, and the first court hearing was scheduled for June.
“If something happens to me, it’s not suicide”As time began to run out and Barnett was still nowhere to be seen, his lawyer became concerned. He couldn't reach the client, so he called the hotel where Barnett was staying and asked to check if he was okay. However, staff did not find him in the room or in the lobby. His pickup truck was parked near the hotel, so one of the employees headed straight there.
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The ambulance recorded a bullet wound from Barnett's right temple to the back of his head. The car was locked and no signs of forced entry were found on it. There was a note on the passenger seat: “I can’t do this anymore. I found my place. I have found peace."
The medical examiner concluded that Barnett's death was a suicide, but his loved ones did not think so. In an interview with a local television station, a close friend of Barnett said that shortly before his trip to Charleston, he told her: “If something happens to me, it won’t be suicide.”
Barnett worked for Boeing for 32 years. He retired in 2017 for health reasons and then began speaking publicly about workplace abuses. According to him, low-quality parts were installed on Boeing planes, security systems worked intermittently, and management turned a blind eye to all this.
Boeing shares fell by 68% after the scandal with MAX aircraftThe company denied the allegations and, according to Barnett, soon began to intimidate him. However, lawyers reported that when the case came to trial, Barnett remained confident: he was in good spirits awaiting the final day of testimony and was ready for the legal battle with Boeing.
Distress signal
In recent years, Boeing has repeatedly found itself at the center of scandals: it was accused of negligence and failures in quality control. In 2018–2019, three of the company's planes crashed , killing 458 people. The company's newest line of aircraft, the Boeing 737 MAX, crashed twice.
“If it’s a Boeing, I won’t fly”Then Boeing explained the tragedy by failures in the aircraft’s control system and assured that all the faults had been corrected. But on January 5, 2024, on an Alaska Airlines flight operating a 737 MAX, the cabin depressurized due to a door suddenly being torn off. It later turned out that the side was missing as many as four fixing bolts.
After this incident, the US Federal Aviation Administration froze production of the 737 MAX model, increased quality checks at the company and launched an investigation into violations in Boeing production. And the families of the victims began to demand multi-billion dollar fines and a public trial.
Boeing shares collapsed by almost 68% from February 2019 to April 2020, from $439 to $141, and since then they have not risen above $270. Many passengers began to avoid the company’s planes, and on social networks users launched a flash mob , repeating: “If this is Boeing, I will not fly.”
This was not always the case - just a few decades ago the brand was a symbol of reliability and safety in aviation.
Gaining altitude
Boeing was once one of the most respected American companies. She helped NASA land a man on the moon and built the 747, the most famous passenger plane of all time. Boeing's reputation for safety and quality was so high that people said they would only fly with Boeing's planes.
She created a pill that changed the world The scandalous story of the woman who invented birth control, became known as a racist and endured hate all her life World 15 minute readThe history of Boeing began in 1916, when American timber merchant William Boeing became interested in aviation. He was the son of German immigrants and at first, like his father, was engaged in selling wood. But in 1910, at the age of 29, Boeing discovered the world of aircraft manufacturing. Just six years later, he flew his first plane into the sky - just 13 years after the world's first flight on an airplane by the Wright brothers.
Together with his friend, naval officer George Conrad Westervelt, Boeing soon opened a company to sell its aircraft under the name Pacific Aero Products, and a year later renamed it Boeing Airplane Company. The first large orders in those years came from the military: the American army purchased training aircraft in the First World War.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the company successfully supplied fighter aircraft and patrol bombers to the military. But by the late 1920s, William Boeing decided that passenger flights were the future. He created a corporation that was supposed to engage in both aircraft production and transportation. Thus, under his control, United Airlines was born in 1931.
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It was not easy to gain a place in the aviation market in those years - before the outbreak of World War II, another American company, Douglas, controlled 90% of the civil aircraft market. The situation changed only with the beginning of World War II - when Boeing put the production of military ships on the assembly line. His company became especially famous thanks to two bombers: the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-29 Superfortress, which became historic for the American Air Force.
After the end of the war, Boeing faced a major crisis. The company suffered huge losses, and eventually falling sales forced Boeing to lay off tens of thousands of people. It did not have the opportunity to compete with Douglas or other aircraft manufacturers because its market share was too small.
To survive in the rapidly growing global aviation market, the company decided to take a revolutionary step: developing an airliner powered by turbojet engines with a range sufficient to fly across the Atlantic.
So in 1958, the Boeing 707 appeared - a jet airliner that operated transatlantic flights. It flew faster, smoother than competing models and could fly across an entire ocean, which was previously unthinkable for passenger aviation. Initially, airlines greeted the project without enthusiasm, preferring cheaper and more familiar piston aircraft from competitors.
“Tu-104 is the fastest plane: it will take you to the grave in two minutes”However, everything changed when the US Air Force purchased its military "brother" in design - the KC-135 Stratotanker tanker aircraft. It was followed by the success of the 727 and 737, the latter of which became the best-selling aircraft in history.
One step ahead
Betting on innovation has allowed Boeing to outperform its competitors. When airlines everywhere began to switch from airliners with turboprop engines to jet engines, Boeing had already developed basic reliable models of this type and received large orders from the government. By the late 1950s, the company's success had turned Boeing into a full-fledged competitor to Douglas.
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European manufacturers in those years also lost competition to Boeing. Their models were much less reliable. For example, the British Havilland Comet planes crashed three times just from the spring of 1953 to the spring of 1954, and the Soviet Tu-104 had 37 accidents and 1,140 deaths out of 201 aircraft produced, which even gave rise to the saying: “The Tu-104 is the fastest plane: it will take you to the grave in two minutes.”
In 1960, Boeing acquired Vertol Corporation, the largest independent manufacturer of helicopters, which soon included the famous CH-47 Chinook. At the same time, they achieved major successes in rocket science - from the intercontinental Minuteman to the AGM-86 cruise missiles.
In addition, Boeing has taken up space projects. The company was invited to participate in NASA missions as a contractor, and soon it created the Lunar Orbiter, the first stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Mariner 10 interplanetary station, and even the lunar car that astronauts drove on the Moon on the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions. Boeing later built most of the ISS segments, and in In 2014, it received a contract to develop the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for flights to it.
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"Last one to leave town, please turn off the lights"Meanwhile, the Europeans, unable to compete with the Americans alone, decided to unite. This is how Airbus appeared - a conglomerate of manufacturers from France, Germany and the UK. For Europe, it was a matter of not only profit, but also prestige: to win part of the market from the United States and prove that the continent is capable of creating world-class aircraft.
In the 1970s, each of the players introduced their own “heavy artillery.” McDonnell Douglas released the wide-body DC-10, Airbus showed its first A300 airliner, also with a wide body, and Boeing relied on the legendary double-decker Boeing 747 “Jumbo Jet” - a huge aircraft that could accommodate more than 400 people. It was he who made intercontinental flights widespread and accessible and became a symbol of the era.
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Boeing, which recently embodied optimism and technological progress, is once again faced with a crisis. The company was forced to carry out mass layoffs. Unemployment hit all of Seattle, where Boeing was a major employer, eventually losing more than 60% of its workforce. At the entrance to the city in 1971, they even hung a poster: “The last person leaving the city, please turn off the light.”
But austerity measures quickly paid off . Soon Boeing aircraft began to be produced again, and employees were returned to work. After 18 months without orders, the company secured major contracts for commercial and military aircraft, and also launched new models: the 757 and 767, equipped with a common cockpit that allowed pilots to move from one aircraft to another without additional training, and the updated 737 and 747 with greater range and capacity.
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Soviet aviation, which experienced its “golden era” in the 1970s, has not achieved similar success since then. In the 1980s, it no longer competed with Boeing or European brands, and by the 1990s, it had to completely forget about success in the aviation market due to the economic and political crisis in the country.
Farther off course
August 1, 1997 is considered the starting point of the Boeing crisis. On this day, the corporation absorbed its main American rival, McDonnell Douglas. Douglas had long been a loser in civil aviation, but its military orders were a useful asset. Moreover, for some reason, after the merger, leadership positions at Boeing were occupied by the heads of the acquired company, along with which came a new corporate policy: the priority now became not engineering achievements, but cost reduction.
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Boeing tried to keep up the pace. In 1995, the company introduced its new technology flagship, the wide-body B-777, also equipped with fly-by-wire. And in 1997, it released an updated 737 Next Generation line with new wings and engines, but maintaining the familiar control system. But this did not help to radically influence the mood of buyers.
With the advent of the 2000s, top managers of large companies developed a new practice: the effectiveness of managers was increasingly assessed not by the usual indicators such as revenue, net profit or production figures, but by the value of securities and the company's capitalization. For the sake of their growth, top managers spent company money to buy back their own securities, and Boeing was no exception. The company's management spent billions of dollars for these purposes. Moreover, the company’s usual expenses were put under the knife, for example, employee salaries, and for the sake of saving, they preferred to outsource some functions.
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In 2005, the corporation sold the historic Wichita plant, which had been in operation since the 1930s. The rise in fuel prices was also a strong blow, so efficiency has become one of the main factors in aviation. The Boeing 757 turned out to be too “gluttonous” and was inferior to the new Airbus A321. Orders dropped to zero, and in 2004, partly for this reason, production of the 757 was stopped.
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Airbus had its share of missteps: its bet on jumbo jets failed . But in the key segment of small jets for daily flights, the Europeans have won . In the 2010s, as the center of influence in aviation shifted to engine manufacturers, Airbus was quick to take advantage of this. He built new engines into the A320neo family of models, saving up to 20% of fuel, and airlines began switching en masse to Airbus.
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“American Airlines called Boeing and said, 'We'll buy 400 planes and they'll all be Airbus unless you can get the same fuel economy and no pilot training as theirs,'” recalls Congressman Peter Defazio. "The head of Boeing replied: 'No, no, no, we will match them. We want half of this order.'"
From that point on, Boeing changed its strategy to producing airplanes “fast and cheap.” To avoid spending years and billions developing a new plane, Boeing decided to put new engines in the old 737 to quickly get certification and avoid retraining pilots. But it just didn’t work out.
Alien engines turned out to be too big for the 737 - they changed the balance of the plane, which is why it began to “throw its nose up” too high when climbing. Instead of seriously modifying the vessel, the engineers came up with a spot solution - they added an MCAS system to the aircraft, which automatically determined the angle of the “nose” and lowered it when there were extra degrees of elevation. This is how the 737 MAX was born - the plane that would lead to Boeing's disaster.
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Long haul
When Boeing's North Charleston, South Carolina, plant began producing the Dreamliner 787, the company seemed to be reborn. But inside the workshops, work no longer went on as before.
Engineer John Barnett had been with Boeing for more than 20 years when he was transferred to the plant as a quality manager. He saw that, prioritizing speed and economy, workers were ignoring metal shavings near electrical wiring. Parts removed as defective were sometimes returned for assembly, and every fourth oxygen mask on the plane did not fall out properly. But no one paid enough attention to this.
He was accused of having “too many comments”Barnett decided to fight negligence and meticulously recorded every poorly performed job. However, instead of a bonus, managers on the contrary told him that he was putting “too many problems” in the documentation. He was demoted and transferred to other areas, where he continued to find violations.
Later in an interview, Barnett recalled how at a management meeting he said that “paperwork” recording the successes and shortcomings of production was as important as production itself.
“When I said that, almost everyone in the room started laughing at me,” Barnett recalled .
He also told how on one working day, together with four other quality inspectors, they identified 300 defects, after which he was accused of having “too many comments.” The next time he was not allowed to take part in the inspection, and other inspectors were given so little time that they were able to record no more than 50 defects - and for this they were praised. According to Barnett, in the pursuit of speed, company management has reduced the number of quality inspectors.
I moved to China and am happy. It’s better here than in Moscow: delivery works perfectly, and food and rent are cheaper Society 7 minute readWhen Barnett was deprived of a promotion and was not allowed to go to work at a plant owned by NASA, he was worried for a long time. According to him, he was bullied for complaining about violations: he was given bad grades and bullied, calling 10 times a day for any reason. In 2017, on the advice of a doctor who feared Barnett would have a heart attack due to stress, he retired.
After this, Barnett decided to talk publicly about problems at Boeing production. In 2019, he gave interviews to the BBC , The New York Times and other publications about numerous irregularities in the manufacture of aircraft.
“I wouldn't get into a Dreamliner and I would beg my family never to fly in one because I know what's underneath the skin. I know what’s flying out there, and it’s scary,” Barnett told the media.
Boeing denied the allegations, but Barnett also filed formal complaints with the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Labor, saying the company ignored his comments, management ruined his career out of self-interest, and the corporate culture at the company's plants was changing for the worse, moving away from quality in favor of speed and economy.
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Black box
On October 29, 2018, a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX crashed in Indonesia. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. After analyzing the black box recordings, it turned out that the cause of the crash was the new MCAS system - sensors that control nose pitch - which was built in to maintain balance due to the new heavy engines. During the flight, MCAS received false signals that the ship's bow was rising and continually lowered it. The crew was unable to cope with the situation.
After the tragedy, Boeing decided to explain to pilots that if the MCAS sensor fails, it can be turned off manually. Они выпустили дополнение к инструкции для летного персонала, но при этом в конструкцию самолета изменений не внесли. Через полгода, 10 марта 2019 года, самолет 737 MAX компании Ethiopian Airlines потерпел крушение сразу после вылета. Причина оказалась той же — сбой датчиков и неконтролируемый наклон самолета — прямо в землю.
Руководство Boeing попыталось переложить вину на пилотов: якобы сбой MCAS не должен был стать фатальным, если бы те следовали инструкции авиакомпании. Гендиректор Boeing Дэйв Кэлхун даже прямо заявил , что у индонезийских и эфиопских пилотов якобы не хватило навыков по сравнению с американскими.
Однако после анализа записей черного ящика выяснилось, что пилоты пытались отключить стабилизатор вручную, но высокая скорость физически не позволила им «пересилить» механизм самолета. Эфиопские власти в своем отчете о катастрофе прямо обвинили в трагедии конструкторов Boeing. После этого все полеты 737 MAX были приостановлены на неопределенное время, а Федеральное управление гражданской авиации США начало масштабную проверку нарушений на производстве компании.
The man with the black bag The story of Anatoly Onoprienko - a maniac who himself did not understand why he killed fifty people Crime 24 minutes readПереждав немного после трагедии руководство Boeing заявило , что они извлекли уроки из своих ошибок и работают над безопасностью. Минюст США и прокуратура отложили уголовное расследование против компании в обмен на обещание решить проблемы на производстве. Отсрочка должна была истечь 8 января 2024 года. Однако 5 января 2024 года на самолете Boeing 737 MAX компании Alaska Airlines внезапно сорвало дверь: выяснилось, что там отсутствовали четыре фиксирующих болта.
Цена правды
7 марта 2024 года в городе Чарльстоне, штат Южная Каролина, началась дача показаний по делу Boeing. Барнетт явился вовремя и за 7 и 8 марта успел рассказать практически все. Последний день слушаний назначили на 10 утра 9 марта.
Когда подошло время для начала, а Барнетта все не было, его адвокаты позвонили в отель с просьбой проверить состояние их клиента. Однако сотрудники нашли уже мертвого Барнетта в пикапе на парковке с огнестрельным ранением головы. В правой руке у него был личный пистолет, палец оставался на спусковом крючке. На сиденье лежала предсмертная записка — на ней были только отпечатки пальцев Барнетта.
A Russian was stabbed to death at one of the largest festivals in the USA. There were no cameras or communications, and it was almost impossible to find evidence. What happened to him? World 13 minute readКамеры отеля зафиксировали , как вечером 8 марта в 19:26 Барнетт вошел в лобби отеля, а в 20:37 вышел, чтобы припарковать свой пикап к месту, где его позже обнаружили. С этого момента и до прибытия полиции утром 9 марта к машине больше никто не подходил. Единственное движение, которое видно на камерах, — мигание фар в 7:20 утра. На момент смерти Барнетта машина была заперта, ключ зажигания находился у него в кармане.
11 марта судмедэксперт объявил его смерть самоубийством. В мае 2024 года правоохранители заключили , что Барнетт покончил с собой на фоне сильного стресса, тревожности и ПТСР из-за многолетнего давления со стороны Boeing.
Названы самые богатые страны мира Эксперты составили три рейтинга с разными расчетами. Но в топе все равно одни и те же государства Экономика 5 минут чтенияОднако близкие Барнетта не поверили в эту версию и потребовали провести расследование. На момент смерти Барнетт жил в Пайнвилле, штат Луизиана, ухаживал за матерью и ждал окончания суда. По словам близких и адвокатов, перед смертью за Барнеттом не было замечено никаких суицидальных наклонностей, он был в хорошем расположении духа и с нетерпением ждал выступления в суде, надеясь, что сможет что-то поменять в Boeing к лучшему.
Мать Барнетта Вики Стоукс заявила , что за его смерть частично несет ответственность авиакомпания. Она обвинила бывших коллег сына в многолетнем психологическом давлении на него.
Полет вслепую
Джон Барнетт не единственный, кто бросил вызов авиагиганту. Юридическая фирма, взявшаяся за дело инженера, вела еще одно дело против Boeing. Истцом был 45-летний бывший инженер Boeing Джош Дин, работавший аудитором качества в компании. Он так же, как и Барнетт, заявлял о систематических нарушениях безопасности при производстве самолетов. Дин утверждал , что Boeing скрывает дефекты и сознательно отправляет в эксплуатацию машины, которые не соответствуют стандартам Федерального управления гражданской авиации США.
Главное достижение американской компании осталось в прошломНо до суда Дин не дожил. Спустя всего два месяца после смерти Барнетта стало известно, что Дин скончался от осложнений, вызванных гриппом. На первый взгляд — ничего сверхъестественного. Однако Seattle Times со ссылкой на источники сообщила , что у инженера до этого не было серьезных проблем со здоровьем.
По словам близких, он не страдал хроническими заболеваниями и чувствовал себя вполне здоровым, поэтому внезапная смерть, еще и спустя всего два месяца после другого инженера Boeing, выглядела подозрительно.
I am fighting in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and I am against the truce. I grew up in Russia and went to rallies, but now the Russian opposition infuriates me. Although there are enough problems in our army Politics 22 min readХотя Барнетт и Дин не успели рассказать все, что знали, их смерти побудили более десятка других инженеров из Boeing и ее поставщика Spirit выступить с аналогичными обвинениями. Среди них — инженер Сэм Салехпур. Он рассказал , что видел в сборочных цехах Boeing 787 и 777 случаи, когда рабочие буквально прыгали на деталях, чтобы подогнать их, а мусор иногда попадал в соединения и проводку. В ходе слушаний в Сенате Салехпур заявил : «Они выпускают неисправные самолеты, и я готов рисковать карьерой, чтобы об этом рассказать».
Новые перспективы
В мае 2025 года Минюст США закрыл уголовное дело против Boeing, связанное с катастрофами 737 MAX. По условиям соглашения, компания выплатит дополнительные компенсации семьям погибших, но ей не придется официально признавать вину в обмане Федерального управления авиации и проблемах с системой MCAS. Кроме того, Boeing освободят от надзора со стороны властей, при котором проверяющие должны были контролировать обещанные улучшения в области качества и безопасности.
Семьи погибших остались недовольны таким решением. В сентябре 2025 года более сотни родственников погибших собрались у здания федерального суда в Форт-Уэрте, штате Техас, с портретами близких, чтобы выступить против сделки Boeing с Минюстом. Они беспокоятся , что компания не понесет уголовного наказания, возможность которого еще рассматривают в суде, и отделается лишь выплатой компенсаций.
«Министерство юстиции пытается замять ошибки и просчеты Boeing. Говорят, что правосудие должно быть слепым ради справедливости, но прокуроры слепы к фактам этого дела», — заявил Крис Мур, который потерял свою дочь Даниэль в авиакатастрофе 2019 года.
Хотя в компании продолжали утверждать, что на производстве нет проблем, уже летом 2025 года самолет Boeing авиакомпании Air India разбился недалеко от аэропорта города Ахмадабада на западе Индии. На этот раз крушение потерпел Dreamliner — погибли 260 человек.
Это крупнейшая фастфуд-сеть в мире В 1990-е годы сын бедного фермера начал продавать дешевое мороженое. Сейчас у его компании больше точек, чем у McDonald's или Starbucks Экономика 9 минут чтенияНо и это не повлияло на санкции в отношении компании. В конце сентября Федеральное управление авиации США ослабило ограничения на поставки самолетов Boeing и позволило ей самостоятельно проводить финальную проверку безопасности конструкций. На фоне этой новости акции Boeing подскочили на 3% (на начало октября бумаги компании торгуются на уровне 220 долларов).
Вновь растущее количество заказов вернуло компанию к жизни. Boeing постепенно устраняет проблемы с конструкцией самолетов и налаживает отношения с профсоюзами, однако в 2025 году ей предстоит сложный путь: вернуть доверие регуляторов, нарастить темпы производства и пройти сертификацию проектов 737 MAX 7, 737 MAX 10 и 777X. Сейчас Boeing рассчитывает хотя бы вернуться на показатели 2023 года (528 самолетов), что все равно ниже планов Airbus, но позволит компании оставаться в игре.
Тем временем на авиарынок выходят и новые игроки: китайская COMAC уже выпустила узкофюзеляжный C919 и работает над широкофюзеляжным C929, бразильский Embraer, известный региональными самолетами, планирует выпуск более крупных лайнеров, способных конкурировать с Airbus A321 и Boeing 737. А главный конкурент Boeing в 2025 году превзошел многолетний рекорд американской компании: количество заказов на Airbus A320 превысило продажи Boeing 737. И таким образом главное достижение американской компании осталось в прошлом.
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