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A Boeing engineer has given compelling testimony detailing his concerns about how Boeing aircraft are being put together.
Sam Salehpour, an engineer with four decades of experience - including 17 with Boeing, yesterday detailed alleged manufacturing shortcuts he felt were being made and how he was shut down by the company after raising them.
Boeing is already facing scrutiny after part of a new Boeing 737 Max 9 flown by Alaska Airlines broke off in January, and two deadly crashes of its 737 Max 8 planes in 2018 and 2019.
Mr Salehpour told a US congressional hearing the pieces making up Boeing's Dreamliner planes weren't being put together properly and that he'd seen people literally jumping on pieces of triple-7 (777) jets to make them fit.
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