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Search results for "Boeing" ...
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Outsourcing Safety: Boeing Jets Repairs in El Salvador
KIRO Team 7 investigators travel to El Salvador, uncovering a series of safety lapses at a Boeing jet maintenance facility. We found unqualified $2 an hour mechanics, the use of broken parts, failures to properly connect electrical wiring inside aircraft and the hiring of a work force that had trouble reading English-only Boeing jet repair manuals. This team of reporters also uncovered the locations of where major U.S. carriers take their jets out of the country for repair (Guadalajara, Taipei, Hong Kong, El Salvador, Beijing, Mexico City and Guatemala).
Tags: Boeing; jets; broken parts; U.S. carriers
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A River Lost?
This investigation explored the many ways in which a Seattle Superfund site, the Duwamish River, was being neglected by the government. The reporters found that plans to clean up the pollution fell short, that local governments did not follow EPA orders regarding the river, and locals who fish in the river are eating unsafe levels of contaminated fish.
Tags: environment; pollution; chemicals; toxic waste; EPA; federal government; local government; Boeing
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Computer Security Faults Put Boeing at Risk
This package reveals Boeing's struggles with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in its information technology department. For the past three years, Boeing has failed, in both internal and external audits, to prove it can properly protect its computer systems against manipulation, theft and fraud. These concerns were not shared with shareholders.
Tags: corporations; businesses; information technology; hacking; business ethics
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Plastic Planes
"Plastic Planes is a two-part investigative report that examines Boeing and Airbus's investment in high-tech, reinforced plastics called composites, for the next generation of airplanes. The entire aviation industry has banked on composites for future commercial airplane designs, primarily because these materials are lighter than aluminum - making planes more fuel efficient." The investigation reveals that "both Boeing and Airbus are adopting this material too fast to guarantee its safety."
Tags: airplane safety; unsafe materials; Boeing; Airbus; aerospace engineering;
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Ethics questions follow P'ville BOE dealings
"School board contracts in Pleasantville, NJ were intertwined with officials getting campaign funding and personal jobs from contractors, resulting in conflicts of interest and probable violations of the law."
Tags: board of education; conflict of interest; campaign; city; campaign funding; publicity
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Erasing the rules; (Mostly) White House
This Newsday investigation finds nearly half of the Bush administration appointees come from corporations, law or lobbyists. This put them in a position where they could use the system to pass laws that helped their industries and in turn help their businesses. One of the instances that this story talks about is the regulations regarding pollution have been eased by the Bush administration. The administration turned over the federal environmental agencies to lobbyists that launched an effort to rewrite pollutions rules, ease curbs on the development of natural areas, and allow more drilling.
Tags: George Bush; Bush administration; Bush's lobbyists; corporations linked to George W. Bush; pollution laws; FDA regulations; control of reactive chemicals; walnuts; Boeing Co.; White House; FOIA
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"Under the Radar" and "Stormy Weather"
These stories revealed crucial information undermining the U.S. Air Force's controversial plan to lease 100 air refueling tankers from Boeing-a deal, which, if completed, would have cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars more than if traditional purchasing were used. "Under the Radar" deals with documents showing how Boeing pushed a plane that even some military officials doubted was right for the job. It also revealed how the Air Force relied on Boeing to shape the basic performance requirements for the tanker and let the company devise the financial structure of the costly, unusual lease agreement. "Stormy Weather" discloses a perverse effect of the derailing of the lease proposal.
Tags: U.S. Air Force; air refueling tankers; Boeing; taxpayers; Air Force officials; Congress; White House; Pentagon; White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card; endorsement; tanker planes; Lockheed C-5 transport; Lockheed C-17 transport; Continental Airlines; lobbying campaign; European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co.; Senate Commerce Committee; EADS; Congressional Budget Office; Defense Department; Air Force Air Mobility Command; Fleet Viability Board; General Accounting Office
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Killed By Parolees; Did Cornejo & Sons Contribute Illegally?; BOE settlement hidden
City Hall: Mayoral candidate's hidden history of domestic violence complaints; fraud and abuse in publicly funded job training program; misuse of travel funds by city officials; City Hall contract tampering; improper donations by a major city contractor. Parollees: More than two dozen Kansans had died at the hands of parolles in the past four years. Nearly, two-thirds who were killed were on at least their second chance at parole; more than a third of the parollees had broken contact with their parole officers before their arrest; and the state made little effort to find parollees who disappeared. School District: the Wichita school district kept a teach on the payroll eight years after the first complaints about is conduct with young teenage girls, they cloaked its settlement of his rape victim's lawsuit in secrecy.
Tags: City Hall; Parolees; Board Of Education; Kansas Legislature; Department of Corrections; Ethics Commission; Sexual Harassment; Bill Warren; Campaign Finance
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Audit reminds officials, citizens of rights
A group of newspapers got together to take stock of how easy or difficult it is for Montana citizens to get access to public records. They sent volunteers to various public agencies in all of Montana's counties to collect specific pieces of information. Their findings were that private citizens have a tough time accessing the information that is gathered in their interest and with their money.
Tags: The Miles City Star; Missoulian; Great Falls Tribune; Bozeman Daily Chronicle; Cheryl Sabole; The Billings Gazette; Independent Record; Choteau Acantha; The Montana Standard; Havre Daily News
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Death on the Roads
A 12-part Newsday series looks at why "Long Island is one of the most dangerous places in the nation" to drive a car. "Collisions claim roughtly 275 lives each year on Long Island," writes Jo Craven McGinty. "That's the equivalent of a Boeing 757 crashing annually, and it's more than five times the number of murders." The series delves into the causes for those numbers and concludes among other things that "bad driving, bad roads and bad vehicle design" are to blame.
Tags: driving; accidents; accident; crash; roads; collision; vehicle design; wreck; SUV; fatal; car; danger; pedestrian; seat belt; truck