The short version.
■ Boeing built great safe planes in Seatle, Wasington state for many decades.
■ In 1997 the highly profitable Boeing merged with the ailing McDonnell Douglas.
■ But the McDonnell Douglas team ended up running the company.
■ They moved the headquarters to Chicago.
■ They open a second plant in South Carolina that wasn’t Unionised (unlike Seattle).
■The South Carolina plant has low paid, unskilled workers.
■ South Carolina build the 787. Whistleblowers have highlighted quality control problems.