Boeing, one of many world’s two main producers of business planes, has stated the claims made by Sam Salehpour had been “inaccurate” and that it was assured its planes had been protected.
“The problems raised have been topic to rigorous engineering examination underneath [Federal Aviation Administration] oversight,” the corporate stated final week.
Two days earlier than the listening to in Washington DC, the aerospace agency hosted a couple of journalists at its 787 Dreamliner manufacturing advanced in South Carolina, the place they walked them by means of security demonstrations.
There, Steve Chisholm, chief engineer for Boeing Mechanical and Structural Engineering, responded to the newest whistleblower allegations.
“We’ve not recognized any questions of safety,” the Seattle Instances quoted him as saying.
“Now we have not seen something in service associated to [the gaps] that might point out that there’s a problem with the in-service fleet.”
In response to the Related Press, Boeing officers have additionally beforehand dismissed Salehpour’s declare that he noticed employees leap on 777 fuselage elements to make them align, which we simply heard Salehpour testify about.