Boeing Under Senate Scrutiny During Aircraft Maker’s Safety Culture. Boeing was the subject of dual Senate hearings Wednesday as Congress examined allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer, which has been pushed into crisis mode since a door-plug panel blew off a 737 Max jetliner during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
According to the reports, The Senate Commerce Committee heard from members of an expert panel that found serious flaws in Boeing’s safety culture. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the public wants the Federal Aviation Administration and lawmakers to ensure that boarding one of the company’s planes has not become more dangerous.
Dailyjit.com In a report issued in February, confirmed the expert panel who said that despite improvements made after crashes of two Boeing Max jets killed 346 people.
Boeing’s approach to safety remains flawed and employees who raise concerns could be subject to pressure and retaliation.
One of the witnesses, MIT aeronautics lecturer Javier de Luis, lost his sister when a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia in 2019. De Luis commented on the disconnect between Boeing management’s words about safety and what workers observe on the factory floor.
“They hear, ‘Safety is our number one priority,’” he said. “What they see is that’s only true as long as your production milestones are met, and at that point it’s ‘Push it out the door as fast as you can.’”
In talking to Boeing workers, de Luis said he heard “there was a very real fear of payback and retribution if you held your ground.”
A second Senate hearing Wednesday featured a Boeing engineer who testified that the company is taking shortcuts in assembling 787 Dreamliners that leaves sections of an aircraft’s skin vulnerable to breaking apart.
“They are putting out defective airplanes,” the whistleblower, Sam Salehpour, told members of an investigative subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Cruz had said in his speech that .“Flying commercial remains the safest way to travel, but understandably, recent incidents have left the flying public worried. The perception is things are getting worse,
The company says claims about the Dreamliner’s structural integrity are false. Two Boeing engineering executives said this week that in both design testing and inspections of planes — some of them 12 years old — there were no findings of fatigue or cracking in the composite panels.
They suggested that the material, formed from carbon fibers and resin, is nearly impervious to fatigue that is a constant worry with conventional aluminum fuselages.
The reports also confirms that Calhoun, the CEO who will step down at the end of the year, has said many times that Boeing is taking steps to improve its manufacturing quality and safety culture.
He went further to say that the Alaska Airlines incident was a “watershed moment” and from which a better Boeing will emerge.
There is plenty of skepticism about comments like that. the report also recorded. On the day before Wednesday’s hearing, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, said “We need to look at what Boeing does, not just what it says it’s doing,”.
From the hearing, it was said that the Boeing officials also dismissed another of Salehpour’s allegations: that he saw factory workers jumping on sections of fuselage on another one of Boeing’s largest passenger planes, the 777, to make them align.
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