Boeing

Boeing   (Corporation, Arms manufacturer, Aerospace manufacturer)
Formation	1917
Founder	William Boeing
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Victim of	Revolving door, Wall Street
Leaders	• Dave Calhoun • Larry Kellner
Subgroups	•  Aviall Services •  Boeing Aircraft Holding Company •  Boeing Australia •  Boeing Canada •  Boeing Capital Corporation •  Boeing Commercial Space Company •  Boeing Defence UK •  Jeppesen •  Continental data graphics •  Boeing Intelligence & Analytics
Staff	141,322
Interest of	Ali Bahrami, Mahathir Mohamad
Member of	Atlantic Council/Corporate Members, European Policy Centre, Transatlantic Policy Network
Sponsor of	Obama Foundation, Center for American Progress, Science Media Centre, Center for Security Policy
Exposed by	Subrata Ghoshroy
US based arms manufacturer which also makes civilian aircraft that since the 1990s have became known for their sometimes dubious reliability.

Boeing is a US based arms manufacturer which also makes civilian aircraft. Since their fusion with manufacturer McDonnell Douglas, the revolving door and an increase in prioritizing Wall Street has caused a deadly decrease in build quality of their products. In 2019 Alex Kane listed them as the #1 war profiteer from the War in Yemen.

According to the American Safety Network, their 737 series plane have caused over 529 aviation accidents and incidents which have resulted in a total of 5,779 fatalities.

History

Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - an overview detailing why Boeing planes keep deteriorating in quality.

In 1997 Boeing took over McDonnell Douglas.

Malaysian Airlines

Full article: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled flight on 8 March 2014 which apparently disappeared without trace, a quite unbelievable feat with modern technology. The prime-minister of Malaysia at the time of the final investigation, Mahathir Mohamad (backed by researchers like Peter Myers), implicated the CIA and plane-builder Boeing were covering up what they actually knew. Private investigators that beat a $200 million search, found witnesses and evidence on the Maldives were followed, threatened or assassinated, with most investigations later on pointing to black site Diego Garcia playing some role.

Remote Autopilot?

“Clearly Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over ‘uninterruptible control’ of commercial airliners of which MH370 B777 is one. Someone is hiding something, it is not fair that… Malaysia should take the blame. For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA"”
Mahathir Mohamad (2014) 

A December 23, 2014 article from the New Zealand Herald and France24 reported that Marc Dugain, the former chief executive of now-defunct Proteus Airlines had a new theory regarding the plane; It was shot down. after being hacked around Diego Garcia. His claims were met with a lot of scepticism. Mahathir Mohamad was visible spooked when discovering - after pushing for questioning how a plane in 2010s could disappear with satellites hovering above the entire world - the media globally refused to investigate or start questioning Boeing (who have a remote autopilotpatented but denied to have built into their newest planes) or the CIA (who work with British intelligence agency MI6 at Diego Garcia).

In a blog post, the Malaysian PM doubled down on his claims further remarking “Airplanes can go up and stay up for long periods of time. But even they must come down eventually. They can land safely or they may crash. But airplanes don’t just disappear. Certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio, and satellite tracking and filmless cameras which operate almost indefinitely and possess huge storage capacities" and that “the ‘uninterruptible’ autopilot would be activated—either by the pilot, by onboard sensors, or even remotely by radio or satellite links by government agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency, if terrorists attempt to gain control of the flight deck".

Electronic Magnetic Pulse

Boeing's CHAMP Missile Demo - Directed High Frequency Microwave Disables Electronics (EMP) - Garrett Fogerlie

Boeing reported in 2013 it successfully fired a missile that destroyed electronics circuits using a powerful electromagnetic pulse. According to them, the missile causes virtually no unintended damage. A test with the Champ missile, short for Counter Electronics High Powered advanced missile project, was successfully carried out at a military test complex in Utah. The launched missile fired a powerful electromagnetic pulse above a two-story building housing mobile products using computers. The microelectronics in the targets, including a series of installed PCs, were all disabled indefinitely. The EMP rocket employed technology resulting in the cameras filming the test rooms in the buildings rendered harmless by the electromagnetic weapon. During the one-hour test, a total of seven targets were reportedly attacked with the Champ missile.

737 MAX Crisis

On 29 October 2018, Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 MAX model aircraft, crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 189 occupants.

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

On 10 March 2019, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, also a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, crashed in Tulu Fara--a village in Ethiopia--resulting in the deaths of 157 occupants. The next day, on 11 March 2019, China's Civil Aviation Administration issued grounding orders for all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. As of 8 October 2021, the order is still in effect.

On 13 March 2019, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued grounding orders for all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.. The order expired 18 November 2020 On 23 December 2019, CEO Dennis Muilenberg announced his resignation from the company, ostensibly to repair Boeing's relationships with regulators and stakeholders in the wake of the air disasters.

• Analysis of the #Boeing737Max engineering process that lead to the crashes

Revolving Door

The Pentagon's revolving door appears to be in full swing at Boeing with for example Heidi Grant, who most recently served as the director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the agency within the US Department of Defense that decides and manages US foreign military sales. From 2017 to 2020, the DSCA’s budgeted $50.9 billion per year for that task. Grant became Boeing’s lead on the firm’s defense, space, and government services portfolio. According to the US Project on Government Oversight, Grant was negotiating a contract to join Boeing while also publicly touting the firm’s F15-QA fighter jets as “the most capable fighters in the world” and “a transformational leap in capability.” POGO learned from a DOD spokesperson that Grant notified the agency that she was involved in contract negotiations with Boeing as early as July 29, 2021. Grant ultimately revolved just a single day after she left her government post. From 2019 to 2022, Boeing hired at least 23 former Pentagon employees of the DoD.

Arms Deals

In 2018, Donald Trump intervened on behalf of Boeing to move forward on a $10 billion fighter jet deal that had been stalled for more than a year.

War Crimes?

The firm has been criticized for supplying nefarious entities, including the Yemen Civil War where its missiles were found to be used for missile strikes of dozens of population centers.

During the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War, students and scholars protested at Boeing offices in Missouri, Washington, and Oregon. Students at the Florida State University, University of Washington, Saint Louis University ordered their schools to break partnerships with Boeing. Students went on hunger strike at Brown University after reports Boeing delivered 1,000 small diameter bombs in the first week of Israeli air attacks on Gaza shipped from a US Air Force base by IDF, fulfilling a $50 billion contract, according to the Portland Mercury.

Dead whistleblower

Second Boeing whistleblower dies months after suicide of another

Full article: John Barnett

In March 2024, John Barnett, a former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm's production standards was found dead in the US. Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017. From 2010, he worked as a quality manager at the North Charleston plant making the 787 Dreamliner. In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. The Charleston County coroner said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating. In 2019, Barnett told the BBC that under-pressure workers had been deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the production line. Boeing said it was "saddened" to hear of Mr Barnett's passing.

In April of 2024, a dozen and more former and current workers from the company came forward to testify against Boeing.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370	“This report makes no attempt or claim to prove that the large low flying jet plane seen over Kudahuvadhoo that fateful early morning was MH 370. It merely sets the record straight that the jet plane that overflew Kudahuvadhoo has not yet been identified. The Maldives government first claimed there was "no plane", then the plane was a "private jet", then fifteen months later a "domestic propeller plane flight", then back to "no plane", then finally to say it cannot be discussed due to "national security".”	Blaine Gibson	2016
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370	“Clearly Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over ‘uninterruptible control’ of commercial airliners of which MH370 B777 is one. Someone is hiding something, it is not fair that… Malaysia should take the blame. For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA"”	Mahathir Mohamad	2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370	“My own view is that probably control was taken of that aeroplane, the events that happened during the course of its tracked flight will be anybody's guess of who did what and when. I think we need to know who was on this aeroplane in the detail that obviously some people do know, we need to know what was in the hold of the aeroplane, in the detail we need to know, in a transparent manner.”	Tim Clark	November 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370/Blaine Alan Gibson's research	“This report makes no attempt or claim to prove that the large low flying jet plane seen over Kudahuvadhoo that fateful early morning was MH 370. It merely sets the record straight that the jet plane that overflew Kudahuvadhoo has not yet been identified. The Maldives government first claimed there was "no plane", then the plane was a "private jet", then fifteen months later a "domestic propeller plane flight", then back to "no plane", then finally to say it cannot be discussed due to "national security".”	Blaine Gibson	2016

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
John Barnett	Aerospace Engineer	1985	2017	Later safety whistleblower. Found dead from "suicide".
Roger Bone	President of Boeing UK	2005	2014

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