Sam Salehpour, a whistleblower and quality engineer at Boeing, says he wouldn't put his family on a 787 Dreamliner.
his concerns about the Boeing 787 and 777 jets, Salehpour doubled down on his allegations and called for all Dreamliner s to be pulled from service and checked for small gaps in the fuselage.
“The entire fleet worldwide, as far as I’m concerned right now, needs attention. And the attention is, you need to check your gaps and make sure that you don’t have potential for premature failure.”Salehpour claims that Boeing took shortcuts while building the 787 and 777 jets to save money and reduce bottlenecks during the assembly process.
Salehpour filed a formal whistleblower complaint to the Federal Aviation Administration in January, around the time Boeing came under intense public scrutiny when aDoor which flew off Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight found in Oregon backyard Boeing held a media tour at its South Carolina manufacturing plant on Monday, where reporters heard from two top Boeing engineers who defended the structural integrity of its aircraft.
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