Exclusive: Boeing whistleblower details concerns over 787 jets

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Exclusive: Boeing whistleblower details concerns over 787 jets

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A 15-year Boeing engineer is blowing the whistle on what he says is a dangerous flaw with the 787 Dreamliner that could make the plane ‘break apart at altitude and drop to the ground.’ Sam Salehpour speaks exclusively with NBC’s Tom Costello on TODAY about the serious problem that Boeing is disputing.
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@Brendonbosy 4 ай бұрын

This guys risk of “suicidal thoughts” just increased significantly

@madisonbear117 4 ай бұрын

hahaha

@Sumi_S 3 ай бұрын

And he just died

@Olivia-W 3 ай бұрын

That's a joke but also like... guy is dead. I mean, two dead whistleblowers, yeah... real subtle.

@jacobfyock2788 4 ай бұрын

Sadly this whistleblower passed away tomorrow 🙏❤

@mashy712 4 ай бұрын

“natural cause, a stroke”

@j4jools292 4 ай бұрын

He 'tripped' over a kerb on his way to Congress and suffered extensive head injuries!

@rainbowsunshinekitty3953 4 ай бұрын

Frfr

@CasualMisinformationSpreader 4 ай бұрын

Thoughts and prayers.

@raymondgrieger9267 4 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@G3AK-NoCopyrightMusic 4 ай бұрын

Let's see what Boeing will do with this whistleblower...

@poppawhoppaoz2480 4 ай бұрын

better watch his back me thinks!

@BobM.-to9ji 4 ай бұрын

This person is NOT a whistle blower, he is a disgruntled former employee. Every Boeing jet used shims to join the fuselage. The person is talking to to the uneducated conspiracy keyboard warriors who know nothing about how jet airplanes constructed.

@Werewolf0216 4 ай бұрын

@@BobM.-to9jihe’s not a former employee, he’s still employed. There are many Boeing employees who have high ethics around quality but are disgruntled because management doesn’t care about quality but just meeting schedule and production aspirations.

@kolerick 4 ай бұрын

as he's still working at Boeing, he may have a little work accident... like a whole reactor block falling on his head while he's inspecting something at the tail wing...

@bobby1970 4 ай бұрын

They might make him disappear?

@Dizzzyyy69420 4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately he now is suicidal.

@calpal9983 4 ай бұрын

There’s video from the South Carolina manufacturing facility of workers who literally build the 787 saying they would not fly on it.

@MackMittenzTV 4 ай бұрын

There is a reason these whistleblowers are trying to get this info out. Hopefully he gets personal security.

@barbarasizemore5961 4 ай бұрын

Why talk to Congress about Boeing, that's like talking to a break wall

@bartsolari5035 4 ай бұрын

U got it!

@soccerguy2433 4 ай бұрын

What's a break wall?

@naefromnj6605 4 ай бұрын

@@soccerguy2433they meant brick don’t be dense

@thewurstgarage676 4 ай бұрын

A break wall?

@Eyob797 4 ай бұрын

Brick wall...., you do have a good point.

@DanGamMan 4 ай бұрын

RIP, will be missed

@jonathanweir8467 4 ай бұрын

Make sure he doesn't stay at a Holiday Inn.

@Native722 4 ай бұрын

Witness protection program

@Luke_Go 4 ай бұрын

A "very safe airplane" that had multiple groundings and the third longest delivery stop in aviation history.....

@flyzips1124 4 ай бұрын

That is the 737-max no 787

@Luke_Go 4 ай бұрын

japanwatchconnection Not always flying (due to groundings and delivery stopy), has never made a profit for Boeing since 2011, and so, did anybody like being on a 787 while its battery burned?

@Luke_Go 4 ай бұрын

@@flyzips1124 The 787 had the third longest delivery stop in aviation history. The max had either the worst or second worst (depending on the metric.) The only airplane worse than the max and 787 is the Comet (in 1954). That's a negative record that says a lot about how lousy the 787s are.....

@Sm0keyX5 4 ай бұрын

@@Luke_Goso lousy thousands of them fly daily and not a single loss. i love internet aviation experts.

@user-tv7qy9fu3b 4 ай бұрын

Wait so now I’m scared, I’m supposed to fly to europe to visit family this summer and the planes are 787-8 and 787-9. I’ve flown on these planes and this airlines countless of times. does my situation seem ok or worrisome?

@davepennington3573 4 ай бұрын

I like how they don't mention the last whistleblower. Their bosses own Boeing stock.

@Nah481 4 ай бұрын

Corporate America is being bled dry by greedy, CEOs and boards. This has been the case at Boeing for decades. Money has not been reinvested into tooling and manufacturing on site, salaries for engineers and personnel has not increased but instead the executive suite and the CEO has cashed in big time. Draining corporations comes to an end when the product malfunctions and we can see that in Boeing today. It's the death of American ingenuity, American creativity, and American can-do. Ceo pay is 1000 x the average worker and Congress needs to put a stop to this. It's not only bleeding corporations dry, It's also stalling the growth of our GDP, A workers don't have money to purchase things like homes, Capital goods, or fund their retirement. The Boomer generation is the last one where most many has a decent chance of not going homeless. For everybody else, younger generations, there not much hope.

@Maxdouble07 4 ай бұрын

Bro just cooked on the explanation! This is exactly what’s happening..

@Eyob797 4 ай бұрын

You foresaw the issue. Yes the CEO's will make their usual millions and get away with. All it takes is one more crash for Boeing to become history. Boeing's years mess has now come to bite its behind BIG TIME.

@Sean-ex9ip 25 күн бұрын

Well said. I'm envious of boomers easy upbringing

@Maliceless100 4 ай бұрын

His final quote conveys honest concern for Boeing and passengers convincingly.

@DaengDaeng0128 4 ай бұрын

He is actually caring his own company! He is doing this with good reason! What a brave and thoughtful man!

@sernoddicusthegallant6986 4 ай бұрын

Such a brave soul, Its so tragic to hear how he ended his life next week by multiple stab wounds to the head.

@wallochdm1 4 ай бұрын

If you don't already know, Boeing only builds the 787 in South Carolina, a plant well known for it's lack of skilled employees and resultant defects. 787's used to be built solely in Everett, Washington until a sweetheart deal from Nikki Haley enticed Boeing to retaliate against its unions and move to low-wage, Right-To-Work South Carolina. How did that work out for Boeing?

@berkeleyfuller-lewis3442 4 ай бұрын

Gotta love that Ickly Haley has been part of this huge fustercluck. Figures.

@csibesz07 4 ай бұрын

Why stop at Boeing, it's literally every industry, capitalism demands moving manufacturing to cheaper place with less skilled worker. Well, I guess, aviation is less forgiving.

@Werewolf0216 4 ай бұрын

@@csibesz07yep exactly. I work for Boeing…for over 30 years. It’s not the company it once was. They think outsourcing airplane engineering and manufacturing is as simple as outsourcing making toasters and underwear. Management are idiots. They train these outsourced workers horribly. For that matter they train US workers horribly too now.

@joshowen9054 4 ай бұрын

@@Werewolf0216 incidently, it all started after merging with greedy MD in 1997

@jenkins5265 4 ай бұрын

Hey, Nicky loves Americans!!! She loves them so much,she’d love you to get right out of your great paying job.

@salesguy0826 4 ай бұрын

Boeing ought to consider the gift this man just game them. A 787 breaking apart over the ocean would end their company. They have a chance to dig in here, if they opt to take it. Or they can wait for the inevitable. From a PR perspective, they can trash this guy all they want but if they have any shred of integrity, their leadership is doubling down on ensuring that plane is the safest in the sky. It's well known this company cuts corners, and rushes product to the market. Their horrific strategy on MCAS with the 737-Max was totally criminal: pilots not even aware that evil system was capable of controlling their planes. I'd encourage Boeing to get it together, and fast.

@frankiexv4533 4 ай бұрын

737 max* and MCAS isn’t evil, it just wasn’t integrated thoroughly enough.

@salesguy0826 4 ай бұрын

@@frankiexv4533 Yea it was. It didn't have to be. Pilots had no clue about it and were flying planes. Two horrible crashes due to bad MCAS errors killed hundreds, including the pilots. Boeing opted NOT to train pilots on MCAS when the Max rolled out as that would have required more cost. That is evil, my friend. The Justice Department settlement, which allowed Boeing to avoid prosecution, included a fine of $243.6 million, compensation to airlines of $1.77 billion, and a $500 million crash-victim fund over fraud conspiracy charges related to the plane's flawed design.

@tapatapaz 4 ай бұрын

Well said.

@jenkins5265 4 ай бұрын

@@frankiexv4533when you know there’s an issue with your plane, you bandaid over it, and then don’t tell pilots about the problem, yah, you have their blood on your hands. They also tried to blame the pilots when this whole thing happened.

@jimtrack3786 4 ай бұрын

Perhaps the 787 does match Boeing's confidence, however the fact remains Mr. Salehpaul was removed to the 777 project as a retaliatory measure and that is alarming. How does Boeing square this with their stated policy of non retaliatory action?

@jenkins5265 4 ай бұрын

On top of that, verbal abuse, nail in his tires, manager calling him on his personal cell phone despite him having a work phone….terrible.

@FartsnShitz 4 ай бұрын

Dude looks a little "suicidal" to me.

@inspirewire1224 4 ай бұрын

If it's Boeing I AIN'T going!

@ArcadipaneVideos 4 ай бұрын

They were fully confident in the 737MAX and then there were 2 crashes. Don't believe the hype from @boeing

@AzureFlameGod1986 4 ай бұрын

Let's hope we don't get a Titanic of the skies. Neglect leads to disaster!

@rickyalcoser6052 4 ай бұрын

Too late, the two crashes of the 737 max already made it happen one was Lyon air and don't recall the other one they nose dived into the ocean🌊.

@mashy712 4 ай бұрын

Titanic was not a defect though. It was a good ship with great craftsmanship ahead of its time. It was the events and people that made it hit the iceberg. Also most ships stopped at the ice burgs fields during the night till morning. Titanic was one that kept sailing.

@j4jools292 4 ай бұрын

@@rickyalcoser6052 The other was Ethiopian Airlines

@spenofzeros 4 ай бұрын

wasn’t that the air france a330 incident?

@j4jools292 4 ай бұрын

@@spenofzeros The two 737Max Crashes were the Lion Air crash in October 2018 and the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March 2019. All lives lost. Issues with MCAS which basically fought the pilots and made both aircraft nosedive in to the ground. An issue Boeing knew of, but they chose not to 'share' that information with the airlines that bought the planes.

@douginorlando6260 4 ай бұрын

Instead of finding a spanner wrench left under the Boeing aircraft floor boards, RyanAir will find a missing whistleblower stuffed inside.

@finnellwilliam 4 ай бұрын

They don’t tolerate retaliation against whistleblowers, but they do tolerate murdering them? At least that’s what’s been guest and assumed.

@cascade00 4 ай бұрын

What is the update on the Barnett investigation? Where are the security tapes and where are the scene photos?

@FreshlySnipes 4 ай бұрын

Boeing saying the aircraft is safe means absolutely nothing.

@bgregg55 4 ай бұрын

Boeing: We are entirely dedicated to focusing on next quarters' earnings report.

@der0ng 4 ай бұрын

Loss of cheap human lives is just part of the operating cost to Boeing. Those who say 787 is still safe, remember metal fatigue failure takes time to develop. Let's see how safe the plane is few years down the road.

@Niorky 4 ай бұрын

It's a plastic aircraft..CFRP.

@davepennington3573 4 ай бұрын

Boeing: our airplanes are very safe and effective

@MEdGrant 4 ай бұрын

Don't you mean "profitable"?

@neondeon475 4 ай бұрын

but boeing hasnt lied before....right !?

@bartsolari5035 4 ай бұрын

Nothing new here as to Boeing's deny and deflect. Lauda Air 004, 1991 is a classic example of Boeing's attitude. Boeing stonewalled Niki Laudi, but Mr. Lauda's tenacity with the investigation proved Boeing wrong...223 fatalities. Side note - Boeing cried foul when the USAF tanker contract was given to EADS/Northrop and eventually given to Boeing and Boeing is north of 7 Billion in cost overruns. Friends in D.C.

@wownewstome6123 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting that. I didn't know about that Boeing disaster. I found some detailed accounts I will read. [Edit: using AI brought up helpful info., as much as I detest AI since it can limit our freedoms....but that's another topic!]

@EuropeanRailfanAlt 4 ай бұрын

Everyone thinks he's gonna die now. I don't think he's gonna die. But no one knows the future so we'll just have to wait.

@braylonc2710 3 ай бұрын

Lol u said what?

@lgarcia67 4 ай бұрын

They also said that the 737-Max had no issue whatsoever… even after they killed close to 300 people in back-to-back crashes…

@videogameplayer0552 4 ай бұрын

If he disappears in the near future or is unalived under mysterious circumstances, we would all know what happened.

@sdkfz2519 4 ай бұрын

This guy has no credibility. He is just a disgruntled employee. There are some 1200 Boeing 787s out there, flying day and night for 13 years, and there has not been a single fatal accident. People are so un-American, and it's sad.

@Werewolf0216 4 ай бұрын

There’s a lot of longtime Boeing employees who sincerely care about quality but are frustrated and disgruntled because management doesn’t take it seriously. Also, the company is far from American anymore. If Boeing could have its way, they’d give all work to India for cheap. That’s what they’re trying to do.

@otlndsh 4 ай бұрын

Boeing would have also told you the 737 Max was a "very" safe aircraft to get on each time before those two crashes overseas

@dreamthedream8929 3 ай бұрын

Well it's still very safe, that max plane. No problem flying it safety wise. Every day they fly. It's two crashes. Of course unfortunate but in general still far safer than a lot of other things in your life

@user-tv7qy9fu3b 4 ай бұрын

@cliffmathew 4 ай бұрын

I hope the inevitable breakup happens while on the ground, so people are not dead. Boeing's Muilenburg was so confident even after the Ethiopian plane went down. I don't believe the PR consultant recommended forceful denial.

@aamildeen9669 4 ай бұрын

I’m never flying a Boeing aircraft again. I’ve changed flights in the past to a different airline when I saw the route contained a MAX 8 aircraft. I will add the 787 Dreamliner to that list. Not risking my life for greedy boeing executives

@DWoodsII 4 ай бұрын

I get where you are coming from but to be honest, with as much scrutiny Boeing is facing, I’ll be surprised if it’s a major accident happens again for a long time. A crash with lives lost and Boeing as a company is DONE

@davidcohen2762 4 ай бұрын

@@DWoodsII it would cost too much for them to take apart planes and fix it. Theyre just gonna sit back and pray by luck nothing goes wrong.

@davidcohen2762 4 ай бұрын

You better add the 777 to that list as well. Roof panel fitment was so tight, workers had to jump up and down repeatedly to force them in place. Another great way to cause fatigue cracks.

@jenkins5265 4 ай бұрын

japanwatchconnectionhow much Boeing paying you to post on the comments section?

@simplifyhandles 4 ай бұрын

Holy CRAP. The government needs to ground these flying bombs immediately!!!!

@jackxiao9702 4 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the submarine that imploded after structural fatigue.

@tomcrenshaw8991 4 ай бұрын

What an exciting time to work in aviation

@carmeloortiz5687 4 ай бұрын

Happy Wednesday to you too. 😀

@eduardodaquiljr9637 24 күн бұрын

Where did he based his observations?

@JasonB808 4 ай бұрын

Begs the question, why didn’t he come out with this information in 2022? Anyone flying overseas can’t avoid the 787. Many airlines use 787 for long haul flights.

@jenkins5265 4 ай бұрын

Most likely bc they thought something would change after Boeing planes literally fell out of the skies.

@colemankilby9 4 ай бұрын

Was on a 787 Dream on a flight from Amsterdam to Atlanta, and the AC started shooting ice out of the vents all over me and other passengers just before takeoff. Not a huge deal, but never seen anything like it before.

@keikei3301 4 ай бұрын

The whistleblower needs presidential security! He should be cautious of co2 poisoning, other types of poisoning, or so called ‘accidents’ such as vehicular accidents. Don’t leave your house, don’t let anyone near your property, don’t let anyone near you! Be sure your property cameras are working beyond your wifi network! Boeing will try to find a way to silence him. 🤐😵💀

@fluoxethine 4 ай бұрын

737 Max 8 tragedy was a manslaughter 😢

@derrickmonares3865 4 ай бұрын

Well I'll be flying out on one of these next week so pray fro me please.

@comfyrhino 4 ай бұрын

You will be okay. 787’s are safe

@nicoleroberts6499 4 ай бұрын

I’m going on a 787-9 on Friday . I’m nervous

@comfyrhino 4 ай бұрын

@@nicoleroberts6499 i used to be a nervous flyer but after watching videos of how they stress test planes, I can assure you planes are very safe. 787 planes are safe and always smooth to fly. The whistleblower on here doesn’t even have the datas to backup his allegations.

@tposeinify 3 ай бұрын

What about the two other whistleblowers that are now dead?

@joshowen9054 4 ай бұрын

i have the impression our society becomes more careless every day

@Werewolf0216 4 ай бұрын

In some things we’ve gotten more safe but in other things more careless. We’re always dealing with imperfect humans of varying levels of competence.

@bingbong9076 4 ай бұрын

Boeing has no credibility, we have seen what their quality control leads to. This will cost lives.

@softwaresignals 4 ай бұрын

That "paper-thin gap" issue: What is the remedy then? Structural adhesive? Add smaller rivets between existing ones?

@AnotherCG 3 ай бұрын

Sam is NEXT.

@MEdGrant 4 ай бұрын

....what the whistleblower says doesn't match what Boeing says..... Well, that's a bit of amazingly analytical logic!

@jorgecgonzalez9976 4 ай бұрын

So he's a whistleblower who doesn't have all the Data. 689 of the 1,100 have been tested severely no evidence of Fatigue, but he is absolutely sure they will fall apart. I think it's pile on time for Boeing which rest assured they brought a lot of this on themselves but it doesn't mean every plane is bad.

@jenkins5265 4 ай бұрын

Not every plane. Just the 787s. But tbh, if a company doesn’t care about safety, buys off the FAA, retaliates against their own employees for raising safety concerns, and even after plane accidents, doesn’t seem to have changed itself, would you dare to put your family on their planes?

@jorgecgonzalez9976 4 ай бұрын

@@jenkins5265 You don't know that your just watching the news!

@VPannagS 2 ай бұрын

Not every plane is bad, but every life is precious! We cannot manufacture planes that are not homologated or those engineering patterns are proven to be defective on “few” already!

@gordonokumu1337 3 ай бұрын

The whistleblowers are dropping like 737's

@BlackAdder1970 Ай бұрын

Boeing: It's a safe aircraft After several crashes of same airplane. Sam Salephor: I told you so.

@thatdude8464 4 ай бұрын

Rip 🪦

@geraldg3130 4 ай бұрын

OK but why are the gaps supposedly too big to begin with?

@Werewolf0216 4 ай бұрын

Gaps have to be designed in between some parts to allow for tolerance variation. Otherwise parts won’t fit together. Gaps are analyzed and a certain size is allowed to be filled with shims then a certain amount of gap is allowed even after being filled with shims and when fasteners attach the parts, the gap is pulled up to nothing which puts a little force/stress on that join. On paper, the gap is not supposed to exceed the determined acceptable amount.

@DanMcDine 4 ай бұрын

The experiences tells us to obviously believe the whistler blower. But this is nothing new to me, years ago Al Jazera made a documentary about the B787's productions, you can find it here on youtube, no way this guy is lying.

@wm6746 4 ай бұрын

So Boeing think we should trust what they say?

@alanwang5066 4 ай бұрын

Safety is the top priority. Boeing's words and actions are consistent. Boeing's supervisors tells employee to follow their instructions and they will do their best to ensure his life safety.

@Kane-ib5sn 4 ай бұрын

it is possible, stress-cracks are already present. otherwise, there's not enough information. i would assume everything is fine, therefore. in any case, airlines tend to retire their airplanes frequently.

@eduardodaquiljr9637 3 күн бұрын

Why you don't make corrective action?

@giggitygoo5623 4 ай бұрын

You know things are real bad when an engineer goes public - speaking as an introvert engineer

@dianahd5203 4 ай бұрын

RIP, unfortunately he passed away next year…

@cw8134 4 ай бұрын

I'm sure boeing was also fully confident in the door plug and the MCAS system......

@csibesz07 4 ай бұрын

Is FAA listening or sleeping as on Boeing inspections?

@herceg6772 4 ай бұрын

What is FAA?

@MJHW-st7dt 4 ай бұрын

Translation: Boeing STILL ain't listening

@Dlee45 4 ай бұрын

Not sure what is it about him, but he has the appearance that he will accidently fall out of a window next week.

@Doc5thMech 4 ай бұрын

Especially those manufactured in South Carolina under the meticulous eye of business entrepreneurs in Chicago.

@AmerBoyo 4 ай бұрын

Build your planes properly Boeing! Stop handing over cash to CEOs and do the job properly.

@WiredLizard 3 ай бұрын

Relax everybody Boeing says it's safe

@themrdepies 4 ай бұрын

Gonna be crazy when these actually fall apart mid flight and they blame it on a missle

@rudyalfonsus686 4 ай бұрын

after all of these, lobbyist will visit politicians and medias, and soon they will create a distraction topic, and this boeing case will sweep under the rug. Politicians, media, and lawyer, this circle is what made this country fked up

@QRedknight 3 ай бұрын

One of the companies colluding with the government. Tyson foods done cutbacks and was get high bacteria counts on their food processing machines. Plus I can’t remember the name of the bacteria but I developes around cooked food and somebody died because of if it a few years ago.

@AnotherCG 3 ай бұрын

And when the parts fall off the plans AGAIN, people are going to predictably acted shocked while ignore all the whistle blower signs.

@VladimirPutin-cz5zy 2 ай бұрын

Well I mean diversity to destroy flying would make more sense than believing diversity can maintain or properly build airplanes 😂

@rustinpeace9303 4 ай бұрын

One thing we do know the safety triangle is not going in Boeings favor

@chuckmiller3401 4 ай бұрын

He is absolutely correct.

@sharkbite6577 2 ай бұрын

If it’s Boeing I’m not going

@rafarafina 4 ай бұрын

Boeing said that they carried out inspections and found zero evidence of fatigue. But its the same boeing that blamed the pilots on the Max crashes, said they were low standards and tried to bribed the families in Indonesia and dismissed evidence to hide their design flaws…I will believe the whistleblower

@yanli7011 4 ай бұрын

Protect this man!

@danielsuarez8647 3 ай бұрын

Is this the second guy who died ?

@vincentschulz5776 3 ай бұрын

No, that was another one. Afaik he's the only whistleblower left by now

@WiredLizard 3 ай бұрын

Our super smart management team at Boeing have come up with a new aircraft design called the 737 MAX its really fuel efficient and only has a slight chance of flying uncontrollably into the ground.