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Same story?
Here's the first:
ANN REALTIME UPDATE 05.15.08 1420 EDT: Vandalism. That is the assessment by officials with the Department of Defense of damage found on two H-47 Chinook helicopters on the production line at Boeing's plant in Ridley Park, PA.
The Associated Press reports DoD personnel confirmed wiring was cut on two helicopters. Tuesday's discovery of the damage shut the plant down.
"We have determined that this was a deliberate act and not an accident," said Ken Maupin, resident agent in charge of the Philadelphia area office of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
Work has since resumed at the plant, with federal officials passing out fliers offering a $5,000 reward for information regarding the incidents.
And the second:
Sestak suggests Boeing sabotage as workers are idled again
By WILLIAM BENDER
Philadelphia Daily News
benderw@phillynews.com 215-854-5255
More than 100 Boeing Co. employees were sent home yesterday, and dozens of late-shifters were told not to report to work, as Army and Defense Department officials continued to investigate possibly intentional manufacturing defects in two CH-47 Chinook helicopters.
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, a former Navy warfare-systems procurer whose Delaware County district includes part of the Ridley Township rotorcraft plant, said that any suggestion that the twin-engine Army helicopters were sabotaged was "pure speculation."
But, Sestak said, "there is a low probability that this was not deliberate," meaning that the irregularities, which he described as severed wires and a misplaced washer inside a bolted-up compartment, seem to have been intentionally caused.
The Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the Army Criminal Investigative Command were on the scene yesterday, officials from both agencies confirmed. Their presence generally indicates suspicion of criminal wrongdoing.
The FBI also was monitoring the situation but was not involved in the investigation, FBI spokeswoman Jerri Williams said.
"Our union guys and girls up there are very, very upset about this," said John DeFrancisco, president of United Aerospace Workers Local 1069, which represents Boeing employees. "They'd like to find out what happened. They're prideful people, and they want to build that Chinook and have no monkey business."
The production line for the CH-47F remained shut down yesterday, but could be reopened as early as today.
About 130 union employees who reported to work at 6 a.m. were sent to the company cafeteria, then dismissed about 10:30 a.m., DeFrancisco said. The second and third shifts, consisting of about 70 employees, were told not to come to work, Boeing spokesman Jack Satterfield said.
"Nobody's panicking yet. We're not willing to say anything's been sabotaged," DeFrancisco said. "We're all just hanging on the edge of our seats to see what happens."
Army spokesman Dave Foster said yesterday that the defects in the two helicopters were "thought to be an isolated incident."
The aircraft, which cost between $20 million and $30 million apiece, are manufactured as part of a contract to build and modernize 458 Chinooks through 2018. The CH-47F Chinook is a newer version of the Army's workhorse transport helicopter that has not yet been deployed in combat.
Boeing officials found the irregularities Tuesday and informed the Defense Contract Management Agency, which oversees government contracts at the facility.
Sestak said that production could resume today and that the Army and Defense Department investigation should be completed within a couple of weeks. The possibility remains that the irregularities were merely an accident, he said.
U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, whose district includes a portion of the massive Boeing plant, said he had been in contact with Boeing officials and with DeFrancisco.
"There's one thing that I can say with certainty: The workforce at Boeing Ridley Park is among the finest and most professional in the world," Brady said.
Satterfield said the incident shows that Boeing's quality-assurance systems work because the defects were caught before the helicopters left the plant.
The third:
Sestak: Chinook damage may not be an accident
By Maria Panaritis and Sam Wood
INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Damage to two Chinook helicopters nearing completion at the Ridley Township assembly line of the Boeing Co. was likely not accidental, but criminal investigators with the Defense Department are reserving judgment until they complete their probe, a congressman said today.
It could take several weeks before investigators determine what caused irregularities in two of the $30 million combat helicopters being assembled as part of an Army contract, said U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D., Pa.), whose Delaware County district includes the facility.
But Sestak, a former Navy admiral, said initial signs are that the damage, which included cut wires and other irregularities on two new helicopters, was likely not accidental.
"There's a low probability that this was not deliberate," Sestak said. "But it can't be ruled out that it was some accident or some non-deliberate occurrence."
"It may take a couple weeks now to make a final determination of how it occurred exactly," said Sestak, who was briefed after Army investigators met this morning with Boeing officials at the plant.
Production on the company's Chinook helicopter assembly line could resume as early as tomorrow after being abruptly shut down yesterday, Sestak said.
"The Defense Contract Management Agency and the program manager of the Army were there and everyone has agreed they'll be ready to move forward tomorrow with full production," said Sestak, who sits on the House Armed Services subcommittee.
Agents with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, which is an arm of the Office of Inspector General, were on site at the facility today, Defense Department spokesman Gary Comerford said.
DCIS notified the U.S. Attorney's Office as a matter of course, Comerford said. The company, meanwhile, notified the FBI yesterday, but the bureau was only monitoring the situation today, an FBI spokeswoman said.
A representative for the unionized workers at the plant did not immediately return a call this afternoon.
Boeing spokesman Joseph L. LaMarca Jr. said the company hoped production would resume tomorrow. The company summoned federal investigators with the Department of Defense to its suburban Philadelphia helicopter facility yesterday after quality assurance employees detected what they considered to be irregularities with the military helicopters.
"They did inspections overnight, and so far it looks like there are no irregularities with any of the other aircraft on the line," LaMarca said. Boeing produces about three Chinooks a month and had a total of eight in various stages of production on its line yesterday.
Sestak said a spare washer was found in one of the helicopters in a system "where it shouldn't have been."
On a second Chinook, "there were damaged wires that appeared to be severed," Sestak said. "We don't know how or why."
The problems were detected during routine inspections of two nearly completed Chinook CH-47F's - a newer model that has not yet been deployed to combat zones.
Agents with the Defense Contract Management Agency swiftly made their way to the Boeing Rotorcraft Division to inspect the two helicopters in question, LaMarca said. The Army had notified the FBI as a matter of course, he said.
"It was determined that an investigation needed to be launched to make sure that this was an isolated incident," LaMarca said.
All Chinook production employees reported to work today as scheduled, though work remained shut down while the investigation continued, LaMarca said. The Boeing line at the Ridley plant is the only one producing Chinooks in the country.
LaMarca said it was too soon to know whether the problems detected with the two Chinook F-models were caused by a mechanical issue on the assembly line or sabotage.
"Some people threw that word around yesterday," LaMarca said, "but as the old saying goes, 'You don't know what you don't know.' "
The aircraft at issue are part of a long-term Boeing Army contract for 458 Chinook CH-47F models and MH-47G models through 2018. Some are being built from scratch and others are being "remanufactured" using recycled D-model Chinook parts on a new fuselage.
The contract is part of an effort to modernize the Army's Chinook fleet. The helicopter's tandem rotor and lack of a tail rotor make it ideal for combat in high-altitude regions, such as the mountains of Afghanistan and Iraq.
LaMarca said the company did not believe there was a problem with F-model helicopters already delivered to the Army, some of which have been declared combat-ready but have not yet been sent overseas.
The irregularities were detected by Boeing quality-assurance staff.
"We check these helicopters over from head to toe to make sure everything is done to specification so that we provide the safest, most reliable helicopter," LaMarca said.
LaMarca said that Boeing officials had not used the word "sabotage" in their review of the matter and that there appeared to be no workplace issues that would have even prompted such an action. He said that the company was not in labor talks with its unionized employees and that labor relations were in good shape.
"There's nothing to spur anybody to be upset or disgruntled," he said.
The "irregularities" were found during testing on the final production line, Sestak said.
"We don't know the cause," Sestak said this morning. "We need to find out why this happened and that's what the investigation will tell us today. I think it would be speculative to go beyond that."
More than 100 Boeing workers were dismissed at midday yesterday and hundreds of others arrived at work last night only to assist with inspections. All assembly work was halted.
Sestak said he did not know whether other helicopters produced at the plant would have to be recalled.
"It will depend on the assessment," Sestak said. "If it's systemic - and I don't think it will turn out to be - then they would go out to inspect other helicopters."
And the fourth:
The Department of Defense is searching for anti-America nuts that sabotaged two Chinook helicopters at Boeing Rotorcraft Systems near Philadelphia, PA.
The Boeing Rotorcraft Systems facility is located in Ridley Park, PA.
Sick, risking the lives of US servicemen and women to make a point.
Spot the difference?
Here's another URL to help the numerically-challenged: http://pbskids.org/sesame/number/index.html
No need to thank me.
Maybe if you watched Sesame Street it would help you learn to count.
Same story?
Here's the first:
ANN REALTIME UPDATE 05.15.08 1420 EDT: Vandalism. That is the assessment by officials with the Department of Defense of damage found on two H-47 Chinook helicopters on the production line at Boeing's plant in Ridley Park, PA.
The Associated Press reports DoD personnel confirmed wiring was cut on two helicopters. Tuesday's discovery of the damage shut the plant down.
"We have determined that this was a deliberate act and not an accident," said Ken Maupin, resident agent in charge of the Philadelphia area office of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
Work has since resumed at the plant, with federal officials passing out fliers offering a $5,000 reward for information regarding the incidents.
And the second:
Sestak suggests Boeing sabotage as workers are idled again
By WILLIAM BENDER
Philadelphia Daily News
benderw@phillynews.com 215-854-5255
More than 100 Boeing Co. employees were sent home yesterday, and dozens of late-shifters were told not to report to work, as Army and Defense Department officials continued to investigate possibly intentional manufacturing defects in two CH-47 Chinook helicopters.
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, a former Navy warfare-systems procurer whose Delaware County district includes part of the Ridley Township rotorcraft plant, said that any suggestion that the twin-engine Army helicopters were sabotaged was "pure speculation."
But, Sestak said, "there is a low probability that this was not deliberate," meaning that the irregularities, which he described as severed wires and a misplaced washer inside a bolted-up compartment, seem to have been intentionally caused.
The Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the Army Criminal Investigative Command were on the scene yesterday, officials from both agencies confirmed. Their presence generally indicates suspicion of criminal wrongdoing.
The FBI also was monitoring the situation but was not involved in the investigation, FBI spokeswoman Jerri Williams said.
"Our union guys and girls up there are very, very upset about this," said John DeFrancisco, president of United Aerospace Workers Local 1069, which represents Boeing employees. "They'd like to find out what happened. They're prideful people, and they want to build that Chinook and have no monkey business."
The production line for the CH-47F remained shut down yesterday, but could be reopened as early as today.
About 130 union employees who reported to work at 6 a.m. were sent to the company cafeteria, then dismissed about 10:30 a.m., DeFrancisco said. The second and third shifts, consisting of about 70 employees, were told not to come to work, Boeing spokesman Jack Satterfield said.
"Nobody's panicking yet. We're not willing to say anything's been sabotaged," DeFrancisco said. "We're all just hanging on the edge of our seats to see what happens."
Army spokesman Dave Foster said yesterday that the defects in the two helicopters were "thought to be an isolated incident."
The aircraft, which cost between $20 million and $30 million apiece, are manufactured as part of a contract to build and modernize 458 Chinooks through 2018. The CH-47F Chinook is a newer version of the Army's workhorse transport helicopter that has not yet been deployed in combat.
Boeing officials found the irregularities Tuesday and informed the Defense Contract Management Agency, which oversees government contracts at the facility.
Sestak said that production could resume today and that the Army and Defense Department investigation should be completed within a couple of weeks. The possibility remains that the irregularities were merely an accident, he said.
U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, whose district includes a portion of the massive Boeing plant, said he had been in contact with Boeing officials and with DeFrancisco.
"There's one thing that I can say with certainty: The workforce at Boeing Ridley Park is among the finest and most professional in the world," Brady said.
Satterfield said the incident shows that Boeing's quality-assurance systems work because the defects were caught before the helicopters left the plant.
The third:
Sestak: Chinook damage may not be an accident
By Maria Panaritis and Sam Wood
INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Damage to two Chinook helicopters nearing completion at the Ridley Township assembly line of the Boeing Co. was likely not accidental, but criminal investigators with the Defense Department are reserving judgment until they complete their probe, a congressman said today.
It could take several weeks before investigators determine what caused irregularities in two of the $30 million combat helicopters being assembled as part of an Army contract, said U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D., Pa.), whose Delaware County district includes the facility.
But Sestak, a former Navy admiral, said initial signs are that the damage, which included cut wires and other irregularities on two new helicopters, was likely not accidental.
"There's a low probability that this was not deliberate," Sestak said. "But it can't be ruled out that it was some accident or some non-deliberate occurrence."
"It may take a couple weeks now to make a final determination of how it occurred exactly," said Sestak, who was briefed after Army investigators met this morning with Boeing officials at the plant.
Production on the company's Chinook helicopter assembly line could resume as early as tomorrow after being abruptly shut down yesterday, Sestak said.
"The Defense Contract Management Agency and the program manager of the Army were there and everyone has agreed they'll be ready to move forward tomorrow with full production," said Sestak, who sits on the House Armed Services subcommittee.
Agents with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, which is an arm of the Office of Inspector General, were on site at the facility today, Defense Department spokesman Gary Comerford said.
DCIS notified the U.S. Attorney's Office as a matter of course, Comerford said. The company, meanwhile, notified the FBI yesterday, but the bureau was only monitoring the situation today, an FBI spokeswoman said.
A representative for the unionized workers at the plant did not immediately return a call this afternoon.
Boeing spokesman Joseph L. LaMarca Jr. said the company hoped production would resume tomorrow. The company summoned federal investigators with the Department of Defense to its suburban Philadelphia helicopter facility yesterday after quality assurance employees detected what they considered to be irregularities with the military helicopters.
"They did inspections overnight, and so far it looks like there are no irregularities with any of the other aircraft on the line," LaMarca said. Boeing produces about three Chinooks a month and had a total of eight in various stages of production on its line yesterday.
Sestak said a spare washer was found in one of the helicopters in a system "where it shouldn't have been."
On a second Chinook, "there were damaged wires that appeared to be severed," Sestak said. "We don't know how or why."
The problems were detected during routine inspections of two nearly completed Chinook CH-47F's - a newer model that has not yet been deployed to combat zones.
Agents with the Defense Contract Management Agency swiftly made their way to the Boeing Rotorcraft Division to inspect the two helicopters in question, LaMarca said. The Army had notified the FBI as a matter of course, he said.
"It was determined that an investigation needed to be launched to make sure that this was an isolated incident," LaMarca said.
All Chinook production employees reported to work today as scheduled, though work remained shut down while the investigation continued, LaMarca said. The Boeing line at the Ridley plant is the only one producing Chinooks in the country.
LaMarca said it was too soon to know whether the problems detected with the two Chinook F-models were caused by a mechanical issue on the assembly line or sabotage.
"Some people threw that word around yesterday," LaMarca said, "but as the old saying goes, 'You don't know what you don't know.' "
The aircraft at issue are part of a long-term Boeing Army contract for 458 Chinook CH-47F models and MH-47G models through 2018. Some are being built from scratch and others are being "remanufactured" using recycled D-model Chinook parts on a new fuselage.
The contract is part of an effort to modernize the Army's Chinook fleet. The helicopter's tandem rotor and lack of a tail rotor make it ideal for combat in high-altitude regions, such as the mountains of Afghanistan and Iraq.
LaMarca said the company did not believe there was a problem with F-model helicopters already delivered to the Army, some of which have been declared combat-ready but have not yet been sent overseas.
The irregularities were detected by Boeing quality-assurance staff.
"We check these helicopters over from head to toe to make sure everything is done to specification so that we provide the safest, most reliable helicopter," LaMarca said.
LaMarca said that Boeing officials had not used the word "sabotage" in their review of the matter and that there appeared to be no workplace issues that would have even prompted such an action. He said that the company was not in labor talks with its unionized employees and that labor relations were in good shape.
"There's nothing to spur anybody to be upset or disgruntled," he said.
The "irregularities" were found during testing on the final production line, Sestak said.
"We don't know the cause," Sestak said this morning. "We need to find out why this happened and that's what the investigation will tell us today. I think it would be speculative to go beyond that."
More than 100 Boeing workers were dismissed at midday yesterday and hundreds of others arrived at work last night only to assist with inspections. All assembly work was halted.
Sestak said he did not know whether other helicopters produced at the plant would have to be recalled.
"It will depend on the assessment," Sestak said. "If it's systemic - and I don't think it will turn out to be - then they would go out to inspect other helicopters."
And the fourth:
The Department of Defense is searching for anti-America nuts that sabotaged two Chinook helicopters at Boeing Rotorcraft Systems near Philadelphia, PA.
The Boeing Rotorcraft Systems facility is located in Ridley Park, PA.
Sick, risking the lives of US servicemen and women to make a point.
Spot the difference?
Here's another URL to help the numerically-challenged: http://pbskids.org/sesame/number/index.html
No need to thank me.
Nah, they'd put poison on the controls.
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Good point.
Mexico it is then.
as I read an article on this the other day one washer and one apparent cut wire....
Must have read it on a conservative site though.