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Tanker test-flight plan shortened The problems mean the Air Force won’t have as much information about whether to tell Boeing to start production. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
EVERETT — Production problems have significantly shrunk Boeing’s test-flight program for the new Everett-built
aerial-refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force, according to a federal oversight report. The greatly reduced flight-test plan means that Air Force officials will have less information when they decide in October
whether to tell Boeing to start low-scale production of the 767-derived KC-46, according to the report released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office. The original plan was to begin extensive flight-testing last summer and have enough data to get a green light for production from the Air Force by next fall. So far,
the program’s sole test flight was three hours in late December by a 767-2C, an interim model. Boeing hasn’t said when it plans to resume flying the 767-2C. The company had scheduled a fully configured KC-46’s inaugural flight for January, then April and now June. The primary focus of the KC-46 flights “will now be spent on
demonstrating aerial refueling capabilities — a key data point necessary to hold the low-rate production decision,” according to the GAO report. The Air Force told the GAO that the production decision will only be made “after the required data is gathered ...” See TANKER, Page A2
And this little piggy went home Firms
cited in Boeing fatality
Stanwood woman provides sanctuary for 190 of the cast-off creatures
Jamco America, given the highest fine, violated workplace safety, leading to the death of a mechanic working on a faulty airbag. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
QUINN RUSSELL BROWN / FOR THE HERALD
By Quinn Russell Brown For The Herald
the buzz
STANWOOD — A few miles east of the Stanwood city limits there is a 34-acre plot of land, half pasture and half forest, where a woman named Judy Woods lives with 190 pigs. Woods, 60, has been sheltering homeless hogs for more than two decades. They are fugitives of farm life, abandoned pets and rejects of livestock auctions. Instead of being sold or slaughtered, each pig lives out its natural life in peace. That’s why Woods calls her ranch Pigs Peace Sanctuary. “You’re going to see every form of pig here,” she said. “From little
ones to big ones, babies up to senior citizens.” There are pint-sized piglets and hulking hogs, ranging in age from 1 month to 24 years old. Woods knows each one by name, and they’re all microchipped in case something happens to her (“Winston won’t start getting called Benji,” she said). The pigs have come from all over. Bailey, born blind, was found wandering in a horse pasture in the Kitsap Peninsula. Police officers discovered Honey in the back of a truck during a DUI arrest in Gillette, Wyoming, (she was
Snail mail But did they send any telegrams? A couple of conservative groups want ABC to pull the plug on a prospective sitcom because gay activist, Seattle-area resident, doorknob-licker and “Santorum” redefiner Dan Savage is involved with the production (Page C8). The groups say their members mailed more than
See PIGS, back page, this section
21,000 postcards and placed more than 4,000 telephone calls asking ABC to ditch the series. Perhaps Savage, in a fence-mending move, can introduce the organizations to those newfangled online petitions. Not lovin’ it: The former CEO at McDonald’s took a 20 percent pay cut during his final year running the struggling fast-food
Emi Nagase and Woods look on as Bailey eats an apple. Emi’s family donated 25 pounds of carrots and 11 pounds of apples to the sanctuary.
behemoth (Business Briefly, Page A9). The company told shareholders that performance under Don Thompson “fell significantly short of expectations,” which is corporate-speak for “the high school dropout running the fryolator at the Peoria store would have done a better job.” Don’t know much about
history: On this day in 1921, Iowa imposed the first-ever state tax on cigarettes — 2 cents per pack (Today in History, Page C8). However, Iowa stopped short of requiring the firstever health warning on cigarette packages. It read, “Please allow us to suggest that perhaps smoking might not soothe your throat.” — Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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Judy Woods stands with Bailey, a 600-pound hog who was born blind, at Pigs Peace Sanctuary near Stanwood. The sanctuary houses 190 pigs, most of which have been rescued from abuse or saved from slaughter.
EVERETT — The state Department of Labor and Industries has cited four Boeing suppliers for workplace safety violations discovered during the department’s investigation into a fatal accident at the airplane maker’s Paine Field plant in 2014. The citation penalties range from $200 to $11,000. Boeing itself was not fined. Jamco America received the biggest penalty — $11,000. L&I cited it for three violations. Two are classified by the department as serious and one was called general in nature. The serious ones were a lack of procedures to protect employees while working on airbags installed in first-class and business-class airplane seats. In November, a Jamco mechanic, Ken Otto, was working on a faulty airbag in a 777 on the flight line at Boeing when the airbag went off, violently hitting his face. The 50-year-old was flown by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he died Dec. 7. Jamco America, which is owned by a Japanese interiors firm, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
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