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Someone with integrity needs to inspect all Boeing and their contractors stuff, they clearly started to cut corners.

Boeing supply chain is 500 miles long. Multiple suppliers for every part, and practically none of them are made by Boeing. I started my career in aerospace manufacturing. The whole supply chain is designed to track and shift liability down into the smaller suppliers, who can be easily replaced. That panel blew off your plane? Well who made it?!?! Where are the certs?!?! That vendor must've done something wrong! It surely wasn't us not tightening the bolts all the way.

Airbus isn't in an advantage there. They also employ a bunch of suppliers, outside the original companies that formed Airbus. However, they might be in an advantage because that's the way they grown from the start. Different countries, different continents, different languages, final assembly plants, all sorts of aircraft...

I met a guy from EADS once, while it was still called EADS, and I was far too young to understand the complexity of what he was talking about. But from what I understood they really do put a lot into managing their supply chain management (very meta), a team he was in. It was a behemoth of an organisation back then and this is just one guy, but I had a feeling they were very open minded.

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