He said of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, that has more than 1,000 in use across airlines globally including at British Airways, that excessive force was used to jam together sections of fuselage. He claimed the extra force could compromise the carbon-composite material used for the plane's frame....
From 2010, he worked as a quality manager at the North Charleston plant making the 787 Dreamliner, astate-of-the-artairliner used mainly on long-haul routes. In 2019, Mr Barnett told the BBCthat under-pressure workers had been deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the produc...
参考译文:越南航空公司的787-10型飞机的前视图,机身宽19英尺(5.8米),高19+1⁄2英尺(5.94米),而风扇直径为9.3英尺(2.8米)。图片作者:Dylan T - 点击这里访问原图链接 The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long-haul, widebody, twin-engine jetliner, designed with lightweight structures that are 80% ...
Last month, a Boeing 737-800 lost an external panel during flight. A few days earlier, a Chilean LATAM Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamlinerexperienced a sudden dropthat saw 50 injured. Rewind a few weeks further to January and there was the now infamous incident in whicha door plug was blown out...
The Dreamliner is Boeing’s most advanced passenger plane to date. It was the first commercial jet made from a light-weight composite carbon fiber rather than aluminum. It also uses about 20% less fuel than a comparable, traditional jet, helping to save airlines costs. The fix will take abo...
Salehpour was testifying about Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, hundreds of which are in use by airlines, mostly on international routes. He spoke while another Senate committee held a separate hearing on the safety culture at Boeing. The dual hearings were a sign of ...
Federal aviation authorities are investigating claims by a Boeing engineer that the 787 Dreamliner suffers from assembly defects that threaten safety, US officials said Tuesday.
a former quality manager for the company, died inwhat the coroner said was apparent suicide. Barnett was in Charleston, South Carolina, at the time of his death, giving testimony about the factory that builds the 787 Dreamliner. He resigned from the company in 2017, citing job-related stress...
Mohawk's story echoes another Boeing whistleblower at another Boeing plant, John Barnett. He spent three decades at Boeing and began working as a quality manager on the long-haul 787 Dreamliner at the company's South Carolina factory in 2010. Barnett said managers there pressured workers to ign...
Then in 2010, Barnett was transferred to Boeing’s new plant in Charleston, South Carolina. That’s where Boeing builds the 787 Dreamliner. And things started going downhill. “The new leadership didn’t understand processes,” Barnett told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview...