An anonymous whistleblower is putting the blame for a door plug blow-out solely on Boeing, slamming the company’s quality control process, and calling the 737 production system a “rambling, shambling, disaster waiting to happen.”
Much of the focus has been on Boeing subcontractor Spirit AeroSystems after a door plug — that’s used in the place of an optional emergency exit — flew off of an Alaska Airlines flight after take off from Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 5.
Spirit manufactures the fuselage on Boeing 737-9 Max jets.
But the report from the whistleblower claims four bolts which hold the door plug in place, “were not installed when Boeing delivered the
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