FILE - This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the door plug from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Portland, Ore. by Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour, who under the Whistleblower Protection Act, notified Boeing and the FAA about concerns over manufacturing processes that involved the production of the 787 Dreamliner and 777 aircraft.
As of time of writing, Calhoun has not appeared at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations hearing, which features testimony from Salehpour as well as experts like Ed Pierson, Executive Director of the Foundation for Aviation Safety and a former Boeing engineer; Joe Jacobsen, an aerospace engineer and technical advisor to the Foundation for Aviation Safety and a former FAA engineer; and Shawn Pruchnicki, PhD, professional practice assistant professor...
Salehpour claims that the way the fuselage is assembled poses fatigue problems that could cause the plane to come apart mid-air. He said he raised these concerns with Boeing and that the company did not take him seriously and instead, moved him off the Dreamliner and onto a different project -- amounting to retaliation. Salehpour's attorney notified the FAA of his concerns and according to Sen.
These latest allegations of substandard manufacturing and shortcuts come on the heels of an in-flight incident on a Boeing 737 Max earlier this year, when a door plug blew out at 16,000 feet, leaving a gaping hole in the fuselage. Experts say had the plane been at cruising altitude at the time of the blowout there would have most certainly been mass casualties.
On October 29, 2018, and March 10, 2019, Boeing had two fatal crashes of 737 Max planes, killing 346 people. The Boeing 737 Max was consequently grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020.
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