It reminds me of the incident a few years ago when BNSF derailed a train of fuselages from Wichita down an embankment along a river. Boeing scrapped the three fuselages.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-derailment/boeing-737-fuselages-damaged-in-train-derailment-idUSKBN0FA0QD20140706
Yes, defining an area by building material. I don’t know, but a tar and stone paving material would be dangerous around jet engines (FOD). The areas are really concrete, why don’t they say that they collided on the concrete?
The company worked for sweated 0.01 to 0.001 cents per item. If you look at the volumes of screws they used (10 screws per production run, 50 to 100 million units per production life, it really adds up. BTW, the product is hard drives.
I once worked for a company that had QA labs in the US. ALL of the parts made by suppliers foreign (mostly China) and domestic were quality checked at our facility. The company decided to let the suppliers do their own quality checking at their facilities.
To make a long story short, The unlimited warranty of 5 years on their products has now gone to a 2 year limited warranty.
