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Boeing faces scrutiny in Senate over aircraft safety and quality

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US Senator Richard Blumenthal (L) greets Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour as he arrives to testify before the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations during a hearing on “Examining Boeing’s Broken Safety Culture: Firsthand Accounts,” at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2024. 

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Boeing‘s safety and quality were under fire again in two Senate hearings Wednesday because the manufacturer faces mounting scrutiny after a midair door blowout and near catastrophe on one in all its planes in January.

A Boeing engineer-turned-whistleblower testified before a Senate panel, reiterating his allegations that the plane maker cut corners to maneuver wide-body jets through the production line, despite flaws. Sam Salehpour alleged that the corporate did not adequately shim tiny gaps at meeting points on the 787 Dreamliner’s fuselage, and that that might “ultimately cause a premature fatigue failure with none warning,” in accordance with his testimony. A shim is a skinny piece of fabric used to fill tiny gaps.

“I feel that Boeing can do higher and that the general public’s trust in Boeing might be restored,” he said in prepared remarks to a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee ahead of the hearing “Examining Boeing’s Broken Safety Culture: Firsthand Accounts.”

Boeing has denied the allegations, calling them inaccurate, and has defended the aircraft and its testing. On Monday, it gave reporters a roughly two-hour briefing about what it described as exhaustive fatigue testing on the 787 and 777 aircraft, saying it didn’t find safety risks.

Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, a significant Dreamliner operator, brushed off concerns concerning the plane on Wednesday.

“I’m totally confident that the 787 is a secure airplane,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

Still, the Jan. 5 blowout of a door panel on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane when an Alaska Airlines flight was at 16,000 feet has again thrust Boeing’s safety culture into the highlight and caused a crisis on the manufacturer. Latest plane deliveries from Boeing have slowed because the Federal Aviation Administration ramps up its scrutiny of the corporate’s production lines.

Boeing’s CEO, Dave Calhoun, last month said he would step down by 12 months’s end, while the corporate replaced its head of its business airplane unit and its board chair.

A separate hearing, by the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, addressed Boeing’s safety culture after a report issued earlier this 12 months from an authority panel ordered by Congress found a “disconnect” between Boeing’s senior management and other members of the organization on safety culture.

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