A whistleblower had raised serious safety concerns about the factory producing Boeing’s Dreamliner, the same model that crashed in India on Thursday. John Barnett, a former quality control manager at Boeing’s North Carolina facility, alleged that the company had tried to “eliminate” quality checks at the plant where he worked.
Barnett, who died in March at the age of 62, had long accused the aircraft giant of “countless” violations of US law. Among his claims was that the risks linked could become catastrophic as the aircraft age. He claimed 787 Dreamliner paperwork was falsified and that a potentially contaminated tube, originally discarded in a scrap bin, might have been installed in an operational aircraft’s oxygen system.
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He warned that if the part hadn’t been properly sterilised, it could lead to an explosion and “bring the whole plane down”.
“I am doing this not because I want Boeing to fail, but because I want it to succeed and prevent crashes from happening,” Salehpour had told reporters. “The truth is Boeing can’t keep going the way it is. It needs to do a little bit better, I think.”
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