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Another bad day for Boeing

Marketplace All-in-One

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News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Yet another Boeing whistleblower is set to testify at a Senate hearing this afternoon, citing a failure to properly track defective parts in the company’s factories. Plus, the tragedy of errors and shortcuts that led to last year’s Titan submersible implosion.

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slash donate. your gift at Marketplace.org. It's shaping up to be a tough day for Boeing again.

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For Marketplace, I'm Novasafo in for David Brancaccio.

0:33.8

Boeing is facing allegations from yet another whistleblower.

0:37.2

It's just as senators are preparing to grill the company CEO on Capitol Hill.

0:41.9

David Calhoun is scheduled to testify this afternoon at a Senate hearing.

0:45.8

Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser has been following this and joins me now.

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Good morning, Nancy.

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Good morning.

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So who is this new whistleblower and what are his allegations?

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His name is Sam Mohawk. He works at a Boeing Max factory overseeing parts that are defective

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were not documented properly.

1:03.2

According to multiple reports this morning, Mohawk alleges that Boeing lost track of some of these

1:08.8

parts and some of them may have ended up in new planes.

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Boeing says it received documents on this just last night and is quote,

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reviewing the claims.

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Now this of course is just the latest allegation against Boeing after a door plug panel blew off a plane in January,

1:25.3

two max plane crashes killed more than 300 people about five years ago.

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