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Days after part of an Alaska Airlines plane blew off mid-flight, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun blamed the incident on what he called a “quality escape.”
Boeing CEO bizarrely calls Alaska Airlines plane door blowout a ‘quality escape’ Julia Reinstein 2024
scarequotes commented on the word quality escape
https://x.com/jonostrower/status/1745186959595884847?s=20
Jon Ostrower
@jonostrower
Jan 10
I speak fluent Boeing: A quality escape is Boeing jargon for when something wasn't built or repaired correctly. The quality has "escaped" during the prescribed engineering or manufacturing process.
He's saying it was a manufacturing quality error that caused the AS accident.
January 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word quality escape
That's perversely beautiful.
January 12, 2024