A Boeing whistleblower recently claimed he was chided for slowing production when he found defects in airplane parts.
The former quality inspector, identified as Santiago Paredes, who previously worked for Spirit AeroSystems in Kansas, told the BBC that plane bodies were regularly shipped out of the factory with serious issues, the outlet reported Wednesday.
Paredes claimed he used to find nearly 200 defects in the parts, and he tried to slow production to deal with the problems.
He also alleged that leadership put him under pressure to not be so meticulous.
“They always made a fuss about why I was finding it, why I was looking at it,” the former Air Force technician alleged:
They just wanted the product shipped
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