Boeing’s

Boeing distanced itself from OceanGate after chief technology officer Mark Negley said he was distancing himself from OceanGate. the employer was only asked for advice during the investigationto determine the possibility of using a carbon fiber body. But Futurism writes that participation seems limited to that.

We will remember this The material OceanGate allegedly purchased from Boeing and then used to cover the submarine’s hull had expiredbut the company’s president, Stockton Rush, ignored this fact and decided to use the fiber anyway.

Immediately after the crash, which killed five passengers, including Rush himself, Travel Weekly journalist Arnie Weissmann published a series of articles in which he talked about a meeting he had with the company’s CEO. This was actually the first report that the Titan was using expired carbon fiber.

The only thing that bothered me was that he said he bought the carbon fiber the Titan is made from from Boeing at a huge discount because it had expired for use in airplanes. I asked him if that was a problem. He said these dates were set much earlier than they should have been and that Boeing and even NASA were involved in the development and testing of Titan.
– writes Weissmann.

Although Stockton Rush has spoken publicly about its ties to Boeing, the aerospace company denied this in 2023. Rush boasted that he had purchased expired carbon fiber from an aircraft manufacturer at a discounted price, but immediately after the crash Boeing says it has no record of the sale. OceanGate also announced that Titan was built with help from Boeing and NASA, giving it a positive reputation as a safe ship.

According to new testimony from a Boeing representative, the aerospace company did not participate in materials testing. It did not produce parts for OceanGate, nor did it recommend what type of carbon fiber should be used in its hull.

Instead everyone Stockton Rush chose to ignore limited advice Boeing provided.

• These included, for example, the required thickness of the case. OceanGate decided to use a five-inch thickness, whereas previous recommendations suggested using a thickness of 7 to 12 inches.
• Mark Negley also said Rush ignored his suggestion for additional 45-degree plating to strengthen the hull.

After that, Boeing no longer worked with OceanGate.

I don’t know [чому]. I think maybe we’re too expensive
– said Negli in an interview

Stockton Rush ignored many warnings, disregarding safety for the sake of cheapness. He also ignored the failures experienced first by the predecessor of the “Titan” in 2016, and then by the “Titan” itself just days before the disaster.

The submarine used a cheap joystick for control, manufactured years ago, and instead of a modern automatic navigation system, coordinates were first recorded manually on paper and then entered into an Excel spreadsheet. We don’t know the full list of everything Rush and his company saved so their boats and cruises wouldn’t cost too much. But in conclusion, it would be better if the price was higher than if the security was low.

NASA

Next on the list was the aforementioned NASA aerospace agency. At the same hearing, its representative also stated that the organization was not included in the design of the submarineThat’s what OceanGate and Stockton Rush’s marketing department claim.

Justin Jackson, a materials science engineer at the space agency, said the following due to the Covid-19 outbreak: NASA moved away from the broad role it had originally intended, and so everything was limited to consulting remotely on the plan. underwater vehicle.

Jackson explained that these plans emerged in early 2020, when Rush approached the agency with a request to build a composite hull for a ship expected to investigate the wreck of the Titanic. A contract was awarded under the Space Reimbursement Act Agreement, but ultimately NASA was unable to build the airframe due to the pandemic. The collaboration between the two organizations ended in 2021 due to marketing disagreements.

Jackson also added that NASA refused to credit the agency with promoting OceanGate’s services, but Rush understandably ignored that, too.