Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour tell senate hearing that company took 'manufacturing shortcuts'

I’m not here today because I want to be here. I’m here today because I felt that I must come forward because I do not want to see another 7-8 seven. I do not want to see 787 or 7777 crash. I have serious concerns about the safety of the 787 and 777 aircraft and I’m willing to take on professional risk to talk about them. I have analyzed Boeing’s own data to conclude that the company is taking manufacturing shortcuts on the 787 program that may significantly reduce. The airplane safety. And the life cycle. Since 2013 there have been serious issues on the 7/8 England program not properly closing thousands of gaps in its assembly of the fuselage on major joints. Boeing, the standard says that these joint these gaps must be closed, usually by a small Shim or filler called the Shim when they exceed 5 thousandths of an inch. Details are that the size of a human hair can be a matter of a life and death. In a rush to address the its bottlenecks in production. Hit problems pushing pieces together with excessive force to make him appear that the gaps don’t exist. Even though they exist, the gap didn’t actually go away and this may result in premature fatigue failure. Effectively they are putting out defective airplanes. I found gaps exceeding the specification that were not properly addressed 98.7% of the time. I want to repeat that 98.7% of the time. The gaps that they were supposed to be shimmed. They were not shimmed. As a result, I witnessed severe misalignment when the planes were assembled. Boeing manufacturing used unmeasured and unlimited amount of force. To correct the misalignment, and this also weakened the weakens the airplane. In the long run, I literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the airplane to get them to align. I call it the Tarzan effect, among other improper methods. Again, I raised concerns. Internally, I was sidelined. I was told to shut up. I received physical threats.