Boeing says a deal to buy fuselage-maker Spirit AeroSystems will help it control quality and safety. But a whistleblower who worked at Spirit for over a decade warns its problems won’t be easy to fix.
WICHITA, Kan. — For most of his career at Spirit AeroSystems, Santiago Paredes worked at the end of the line. It was his job to catch production errors before the fuselage left“It’s poor quality. Poor quality of work, just plain and simple,” he says, flipping through photos on his phone of the serious mistakes that he flagged during his dozen years as a quality inspector at Spirit.in midair last January.
“It's really about focus and running that business, not as a business, but as a factory,” West said. “Run it as a factory and stay focused on safety and quality and stability.” “They were upset for me finding defects,” Paredes said. “It was never the people that created the defects fault. It was my fault for finding it.”
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