Boeing put under Senate scrutiny during back-to-back hearings on aircraft maker's safety culture
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April 17, 2024
An engineer at Boeing said Wednesday that the aircraft company, in rushing to produce as many planes as possible, is taking manufacturing shortcuts that could lead to jetliners breaking apart.
"They are putting out defective airplanes," the engineer, Sam Salehpour, told members of a Senate subcommittee.
Salehpour was testifying about Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, hundreds of which are in use by airlines, mostly on international routes. He spoke while another Senate committee held a separate hearing on the safety culture at Boeing.
The dual hearings were a sign of the intense pressure on Boeing sinc...
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