The Federal Aviation Administration announced yesterday that they were opening an investigation into the company after Boeing reported that workers at its South Carolina production plant had falsified inspection records on some of its new 787 Dreamliner planes.
The head of the 787 production line said that the company is taking "Swift and serious corrective action with multiple teammates." Advertisement The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes.
Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create "An immediate safety of flight issue." In an email to Boeing's South Carolina employees on April 29, Scott Stocker, who leads the 787 program, said a worker observed an "Irregularity" in a required test of the wing-to-body join and reported it to his manager.
Based on the description Boeing provided, the inspection wasn't being done improperly.
Boeing has continually denied those allegations, saying that the errors that have shown up are rare exceptions and that they encourage all of their workers to report potential safety issues and resolve them.
We should probably at least give some credit to Boeing for reporting this issue to the FAA voluntarily before the information became public.
None of the planes have been pulled from service at this point, but the FAA is directing Boeing to immediately prepare a plan to conduct these inspections on planes that are already flying and to go back and run them again on the aircraft still working through the production process.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/05/07/boeing-admits-to-falsifying-inspection-records-n3787930
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