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Business Matters: Whistleblower: Parts sent to Boeing had 'serious defects'

Whistleblower: parts sent to Boeing had 'serious defects'

09/05/2024 GMT

Whistleblower: Parts sent to Boeing had 'serious defects'

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Whistleblower: Parts sent to Boeing had 'serious defects'

Spirit Aerosystems, Boeing's largest supplier, strongly disagrees with the allegations

Fuselages made by Boeing's largest supplier often had serious defects, a former quality inspector at the firm claims.

A former employee of Boeing's biggest supplier has claimed that sections of 737 Max aircraft regularly left its factory with serious defects.

Spirit Aerosystems builds fuselages for the 737 Max, which are then shipped to Boeing’s own plant for final assembly.

Speaking publicly for the first time, former quality inspector Santiago Peredes told the BBC that some managers actively tried to discourage him from flagging up flaws in half-finished planes.

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(Photo: A worker walks past Boeing's 737 MAX-9 under construction at their production facility in Renton, Washington, US. Credit: Reuters)

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