faulty equipment before sales take place. Boeing, one of the largest jet-building companies in America, has been fined for more than $245,000 in quality control errors. They were found to be putting faulty parts in exit doors and using self-locking nuts that were defective (Greenwald 40). Safe or not? Although there are a lot of examples of flight disasters caused by human error and faulty equipment each year, there has been an eighty percent decline in the number of fatal airplane accidents since the 1960s (Shrontz 40). Getting to some places throughout the world depend solely on air travel; therefore, people must trust their lives to flight crews, safety inspectors, and maintenance crews and believe that all problems are being addressed and corrected....
