Samantha Lai Melanie Garrabrant ENGL 100 14 July 2024 Boeing’s Aircraft Problem For the past few years, Boeing has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Laura Rodini’s article Boeing’s turbulent descent: The company’s scandals & mishaps, touches upon six different incidents involving Boeing. Rodini mainly focuses on the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 incident, where the door blew off the plane mid-flight. She also provides the reader with a quick history behind Boeing to provide credibility and the importance of Boeing as a company. To provide more credibility, Rodini also goes over the financial impacts and consequences of Boeing’s incidents. Rodini’s article is credible as she informs the reader of the history behind Boeing and their …show more content…
Bill Boeing, a yachtsman and industrialist, started his company with the help of Lt. George Conrad Westervelt, a Navy engineer.” (Rodini) is an example that supports some of the research she did prior to informing the average person. Knowing that Boeing was founded in the United States of America and had the input of a Navy engineer shows how Boeing’s relationship with the U.S. government began as “After the U.S. entered World War I, Boeing built two more planes and shipped them to the Navy’s [Westervelt’s branch of service] Pensacola training facility. Impressed with their design, the Navy placed an order for 50 more.” (Rodini) This indicates that the Navy, one of the military branches of the United States’s military, was confident in Boeing’s planes and why Rodini mentions that “During World War II, one-quarter of the U.S. military’s aircraft were manufactured by Boeing,” and that “Boeing became a symbol of American innovation.” Which shows how Boeing transitioned from primarily building and designing aircraft for military use to commercial use and eventually created the first commercial jet plane, which they are Rodini provides all this information to convey how dominant Boeing is in the aviation industry and its importance to the U.S.