Boeing Whistleblower Warns Against Corporation's Requests For 'Safety Exemptions'
After another major incident with the corporation's 737 MAX aircraft, Boeing whistleblower Ed Pierson points to alarming safety problems
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Following another incident involving a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, a known Boeing whistleblower is sounding the alarm over the multinational corporation’s requests for “safety exemptions.”
The Associated Press reported that “a fuselage panel blew out on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 seven minutes after takeoff from Portland, Oregon.”
“The rapid loss of cabin pressure pulled the clothes off a child and caused oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling, but miraculously none of the 171 passengers and six members were injured. Pilots made a safe emergency landing,” AP added.
A “missing door plug” presumably from the aircraft was found in the backyard of a home in Portland, and NBC News reported on January 8 that United Airlines had found multiple “installation issues” with door plugs in their Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes, including bolts that need tightening.
Ed Pierson, a former Boeing senior manager and the executive director of the Foundation for Aviation Safety, appeared on “Democracy Now!” to discuss the incident. He said, “There’s lots of requests for engineering exemptions, which is really shocking when you think that, after all that, why are we having the Boeing Company right now ask for delays for engineering exemptions?”
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