Of where the plane was. If im looking at a plane thats supposed to be getting shaped and im the last person to see it, i shouldnt be finding missing fasteners, missing parts and things like that. So why were they not thanking you for picking up on these things . They just wanted the product out. They werent focused on the consequences of shipping bad fuselages. They were just focused on meeting the quotas, meeting the schedule, meeting the budget, meeting the numbers. If the numbers looked good, the state of the fuselages didnt really matter. And thats how i think the culture was driven in spirit. Throughout all this, youre picking up problems on fuselages that are being sent to boeing. Are fuselages getting through to boeing that still have flaws that have not been fixed . The whole time we were there, boeing knowingly knew that spirit was sending fuselages with many defects many, many, many of them bad. They knew that, they were aware of it. And spirit was wrong for sending defective
Has now passed 11,000 and is expected to rise. But the red crescent is still hopeful of finding survivors. Here is what some of what modern groupers had to say. Martin griffiths. In libya, a completely different catastrophe as we have heard from various authorities. One which is appalling, shocking and i think unimaginable, actually, in its consequences. Ive heard there are speculations that up to 20,000 are dead, 4000 deaths registered at the moment. In libya where access to derna is still so difficult where there is a compounded problem of the dams breaking and storms breaking, this is a tragedy in which climate and capacity has collided to cause this terrible tragedy. Derna is a city of 100,00 people, 900,000 affected. We and other agencies are already present in libya because of humanitarian issues that have been happening for some years. Weve sent from my office from geneva here a un disaster coordination team, 15 people who went to morocco and then redeployed to libya. Also commu
The number of dead is rising in a landscape that has been transformed, devastated. This is what is left after more than 250 times. The average monthly rainfall came down in just 2a hours and cascaded onto derna. Entire neighborhoods swept away as two dams on the outskirts of the city failed. A catastrophe hit libya. A huge catastrophe. May god accept the victims. We pray for their families. Despite the scale of the destruction, the hunt for survivors goes on. Some International Help is arriving. These dogs are part of a spanish rescue Team Involved in a search against the clock. Weve been working all day on the buildings that have been completely destroyed by the dams bursting. The scale of destruction in the city is devastating, with a huge number of buildings damaged and victims missing. Thats why we were working as hard as we can. People survey the little thats left with a sense of disbelief and with questions. Why werent residents warned the storm was coming and given time to escap
others, like china s unfair trade policies and preventing access to advanced us technology. and on the chinese side, president xi reportedly called us support for any taiwanese independence effort a red line and accused the us of trying to suppress china s development of advanced technology. over four days of meetings, treasury secretary janet yellen is expected to meet with some china s top political and economic officials, as well as american business leaders and chinese professors and students. she is expected to warn china against flooding the market with cheap clean energy exports, things like electric vehicles and lithium ion batteries. the white house is trying to bolster that industry domestically by offering its own tax breaks and subsidies. let s get you up to speed quickly with an earthquake this morning in taiwan, because the well s largest contract chip maker has told the bbc it has evacuated some of its facilities there. the company says it is estimating th
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