Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour tells senate hearing that company took ’manufacturing shortcuts’
Boeing’s global fleet of 787 Dreamliner jets should be grounded for safety checks after manufacturing errors left them structurally unsound, a whistleblower has said.
Engineer Sam Salehpour claimed that a race to speed up production had led to serious problems with the aeroplanes including small gaps between sections of fuselage.
He is calling for the entire fleet of more than 1,000 Dreamliners to be kept on the ground for inspection.
Mr Salehpour told US broadcaster NBC: “The entire fleet worldwide, as far as I’m concerned right now, needs attention. And the attention is, you need to check the gaps and make sure that you don’t have potential for premature failur
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