Salehpour highlighted production issues in connection with 98.7 percent of 787 Dreamliners, where Boeing did not fill tiny gaps, âshims,â between different parts of the fuselage. Repeated pressurization of the aircraft, which occurs on every commercial flight and allows humans to survive inside the plane at altitudes where the air is too thin to breathe, creates weak points that risk the body of the plane simply falling apart mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
Salehpour, who has been an engineer for 40 years, pointed out that while âBoeingâs PR team likes to call [shims] the width of a human hair,â even gaps that small âwhen you are operating at 35,000 feet ⌠can be a matter of life and death.â
He continued, âIn a rush to address bottlenecks in production, Boeing hid problems, pushing pieces together with excessive force to make it appear that the gaps donât exist.â
This may, he continued, âresult in premature fatigue failure. Effectively they are putting out defective airplanes.â
After he raised these concerns internally, Boeing management moved Salehpour to the 777 program. There, he also witnessed numerous safety violations and improper methods of fitting parts together, including âliterally jumping on pieces of the airplane to get them to align.â
The corporate giant Boeing sits at the heart of American imperialism, both as a major exporter and a supplier of US war materiel, including equipment used by Israel in its genocide against Gaza. There is every reason to believe that the mafia-like actions described by Salehpour are standard practice by Boeingâenabled by the two big business parties, Congress, federal regulators, the corporate media and the courtsâto protect its interests and those of US capitalism as a whole.
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