A Boeing whistleblower has reiterated claims made earlier in the year over the company’s use of faulty parts in their manufacturing process.
Sam Mohawk, a 13-year veteran of Boeing, says workers installed flawed parts in aircraft to ensure that delays did not impact production. Mohawk says the defective parts were installed in secret, a response to supply chain shortages that have plagued the industry since the pandemic.
Earlier this year, Mohawk, a Boeing quality assurance investigator based in Renton, Washinton, alleged the aircraft manufacturer was improperly storing aircraft parts in an effort to “intentionally hide” them from FAA inspectors. Now, in a recently released interview, Mohawk doubled down on his allegations.
“There’s so much chaos in that factory,” Mohawk told CBS News.
“There’s a desperation for parts. Because we have problems with our parts suppliers. So there’s, in order to get that plane built and out the door in time, I think unfortunately some of those parts were recycled back onto the airplanes in order to build, keep building the airplane and not stop it in production.”
In one example, Mohawk says dozens of flawed or non-conforming rudders, the part that controls the aircraft’s steering, went missing, suggesting the faulty parts may have been recycled back into production.
“We have thousands of missing parts… They’re huge parts,” he said
“And they just completely went missing.”
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