Boeing whistleblower testifies in Congress: ‘They are putting out defective airplanes'

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Boeing whistleblower testifies in Congress: ‘They are putting out defective airplanes'
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Boeing is in the spotlight as members of Congress examine allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer. The Senate held…

Sam Salehpour told lawmakers that the company is taking shortcuts in assembling 787 Dreamliners that leaves sections of an aircraft's skin vulnerable to breaking apart.

One of the witnesses, MIT aeronautics lecturer Javier de Luis, lost his sister when a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia in 2019. De Luis commented on the disconnect between Boeing management’s words about safety and what workers observe on the factory floor. “They are putting out defective airplanes,” the whistleblower, Sam Salehpour, told members of an investigative subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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