Senate committee hearings today on Capitol Hill, with witnesses questioning how the company builds aeroplanes and the safety of those planes.
He said that Boeing used "unmeasured and unlimited" amount of force – including people jumping on pieces of the aeroplane – to correct misalignment between sections of jets, and that the gap ended up being much more than the 5/1000th of an inch allowed by Boeing's own standards. "When operating at 35,000 feet, the size of a human hair can be a matter of life and death," he said."When I bring something to my boss, he prevents me from even documenting or sending information.Boeing put out a statement later in the day defending the safety of its planes, saying that in 13 years of service, the 787 fleet has safely transported more than 850 million passengers on more than 4.2 million flights, while the 777 fleet has safely flown more than 3.
Former Boeing manager Ed Pierson called the lack of paperwork provided to the National Transportation Safety Board "a criminal cover-up".