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Boeing faces a new investigation after the planemaker told US regulators it might have failed to properly carry out some quality inspections on its 787 Dreamliner planes.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it was “investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records”.
The regulator said that while the investigation was under way, Boeing employees would reinspect the Dreamliners that had not been delivered to airline customers yet, and the company would develop an “action plan” for the planes that are already in service.
The FAA said Boeing “voluntarily informed us in April that it may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding and grounding where the wings join the fuselage on certain 787 Dreamliner airplanes”.
The Boeing executive overseeing the 787 programme, Scott Stocker, wrote in an internal memo, seen by the Guardian, that the problem was reported by an employee and was an instance of “misconduct,” but not “an immediate safety of flight issue”.
“We promptly informed our regulator about what we learned and are taking swift and serious corrective action with multiple teammates,” the memo added.
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runswithjedi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Another Boeing executive is quoted as saying, “We don’t falsify records, we embellish them.” When a reporter asked what the difference was, the executive responded, “You know, you seem like a real go-getter and like to dig into the truth. We’ve got plenty of whistleblower positions open, would you like the job?”
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