sthetic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not, but another article mentions a Boeing employee who did have nightmares about specific planes. It doesn’t sound like this one was on her list of concern, but was sold to India shortly after she was noting which planes were particularly bad:

  Cynthia Kitchens, a former quality manager who worked at the Charleston plant between 2009 and 2016, has a binder full of notes, documents and photos from her frustrating years at Boeing, one page of which lists the numbers of the eleven planes delivered between early 2012 and late 2013 whose quality defects most kept her awake at night. Six of them went to Air India, whose purchases were bolstered by billions of dollars in Export-Import Bank loan guarantees. The plane that crashed was delivered in January 2014 from Boeing’s now-defunct assembly line in Everett, Washington, though its mid- and aft- fuselages were produced in Charleston.