Tankers, Recon Planes Grounded Over Faulty Tail Pins - AVweb

One five inch pin keeps the tail on?

Find the State that the company is in, and look at their Politicians and see which ones had the new Vacation homes added, that is how contracts are given.

May be Your comment, Star L. is the most rightful so far in this matter.

Why do you think that Boeing had anything to do with either the manufacture or certification of the bogus bolts? Boeing design documents would have details on the required specifications of the bolts, but I doubt Boeing would have any oversight of the after-market design of the 707 hardware.

Stalin may have been right, executing the CEOs that take advantage of the military procurement process.

No, just 90% of it.

Boeing had ZERO to do with these third party parts. The US Air Force contracted these parts and it was THEIR QA system which failed miserable.