During his speech at National Whistleblower Day, Boeing whistleblower Ed Pierson, the Executive Director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety, an aviation industry watchdog group, revealed that he had uncovered new documents underscoring Boeing’s alleged shortcomings in the manufacturing of 737 Max planes.
“Since it’s Whistleblower Day, I thought I’d do some whistleblowing,” Pierson said, before detailing the three sets of documents he said had recently received from Boeing employees.
The first group of documents are Shipside Action Tracker or “SAT” records for the Ethiopian Airlines 737-8 MAX airplane that crashed on March 10, 2019. These SAT records are production records from the Renton, Washington factory where the plane was manufactured.
According to the Foundation for Aviation Safety’s summary of the documents, these records “paint a clear picture of the confusing and chaotic production operations going on at the 737 factory when this airplane was being manufactured. The production process breakdowns and quality control errors involving the installation of ET302’s Electrical Wiring Interconnect System (EWIS) are particularly concerning.”
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