Boeing CEO testifies before Senate
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
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USA TODAY Consumer Travel Reporter Zach Wichter breaks down the Boeing CEO's testimony, after a new whistleblower complaint.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday June 19th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.5 | excerpt. Today's CEO has testified before a Senate subcommittee. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus, cities break temperature records amid a heat wave, |
| 0:30.0 | and we look at how an honor flight will commemorate black service members on Juneteenth. |
| 0:35.0 | Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun appeared before a Senate subcommittee yesterday |
| 0:41.0 | where he faced questions about the company's response to safety |
| 0:44.0 | concerns. His testimony came after a new whistleblower complaint from the |
| 0:47.9 | airplane manufacturer. I caught up with USA Today consumer travel reporter |
| 0:52.0 | Zach Wichter for the latest. |
| 0:54.4 | Zach, thanks for hopping on. |
| 0:55.5 | Yeah, my pleasure. |
| 0:56.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:57.3 | So, Zach, we're hearing about a new whistleblower complaint |
| 1:00.0 | out of Boeing. |
| 1:01.2 | And what do we know here? |
| 1:02.2 | So this whistleblower complaint was just revealed on Tuesday morning and basically a current employee of Boeing said that there have been some issues with parts that are out of spec or damaged in some way |
| 1:17.3 | being improperly documented and possibly installed on airplanes and because of the ways that the company was allegedly |
| 1:26.2 | trying to get around these parts being noticed by the FAA they may have |
| 1:30.8 | wound up on airplanes. |
| 1:33.2 | Boeing for its part says that it's investigating these claims. |
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